Re: Linux Kernel include files

[Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

>> >  Can you be more specific about why this is a problem? Don't
>> > we mostly define those crappy types using arch-specific knowledge, as
>> > 'int', 'long', etc?
>> 
>> I recommend you to install Sun Studio and to try to compile star or cdrtools
>> using Sun Studio by calling "make CCOM_suncc".
>>
>> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
>> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>> 
>> You may need to hand edit the file incs/<arch-dir>/{xconfig.h!rules.conf}
>> 
>> in order to enable the auto-disabled features.
>> 
>> In any case, self reading the error messages from Sun Studio helps more than
>> trying to discuss it.
>
> I have no interest in doing this for myself, and I suspect that if I
> tried it I'd find that Sun Studio doesn't exist for Linux/PowerPC
> anyway. Please just show the error messages.

Apart from the usual whining about GNU make, the error message is:
make: *** No rule to make target `CCOM_suncc'.  Stop.

If I actually install smake, as Jörg recommends, the message becomes:
smake: Can't find any source for 'CCOM_suncc'.
smake: Couldn't make 'CCOM_suncc'.
-- 
Hilsen Harald.