From: Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>
To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAKE errors when trying to compile in Ubuntu 9.10
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:31:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100301093133.GA19186@gevaerts.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8CAF58.6060105@spamgourmet.com>
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Dieter R Kedrowitsch wrote:
> Greetings! I am trying to compile ELKS from the archive
> elks-0.1.3.tar.gz and I am experiencing an error during make that I have
> never seen before. I am using bin86 0.16.17 on a pretty much stock
> installation of Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> This is just a small snippet of an error that is repeated many times
> when I run make to 'make dep'.
>
> printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value
> printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value
> printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value
This looks like your shell doesn't like some particular printf syntax.
Doesn't Ubuntu use dash as /bin/sh? Try setting it to bash
Frank
> boot/setup.S:588: error: macro names must be identifiers
> make[2]: *** [boot/setup.s] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/elks/arch/i86'
> make[1]: *** [Image] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/elks'
> make: *** [elks] Error 2
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
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2010-03-01 6:24 ` MAKE errors when trying to compile in Ubuntu 9.10 Dieter R Kedrowitsch
2010-03-01 9:31 ` Frank Gevaerts [this message]
2010-03-02 19:24 ` Harley Laue
2010-03-02 19:52 ` Dieter R Kedrowitsch
2010-03-02 20:24 ` Harley Laue
2010-03-02 20:37 ` MAKE errors when trying to compile in Ubuntu 9.10 (nospam: message 9 of 20) Dieter R Kedrowitsch
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