From: Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
To: nsheeley@austin.rr.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: semaphore-helper.h
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:15:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36D506B0.72582B7E@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 013092421221829FE5@mail5.austin.rr.com
When I just rechecked, I saw that it is fixed now!
Paul and Gary are faster than the delays in the mailing lists.
Thanks!
--
Martin
nsheeley@austin.rr.com wrote:
>
> I just checked out the current CVS from
>
> :pserver:cvs@cvs.samba.org:/cvsroot
>
> All seems well until I try to do a make:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/local/src/CVS_kernel/linux/kernel'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/local/src/CVS_kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -fno-builtin -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c -o sched.o sched.c
> sched.c:39: asm/semaphore-helper.h: No such file or directory
You don't get the __down_trylock error in ksyms.c? Did they already
start repairing the 2.2.2 bug?
>
> Hmm.. only three arch's asm-includes have semaphore-helper.h
> (i386, sparc, sparc64), but its not ifdef'ed in any way in
> sched.c
>
> So my question are:
>
> a. Should I expect to be able to CVS checkout and
> make a working kernel? I am wondering about the stability
> of the tree -- what's my percent chance that I won't have
> to debug anything?
In principle, it should work. But there are always bugs possible. And
then there are guys with a weird sense of humour, in this case Linus
Himself. Read
http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/199902/msg01298.html
> b. If yes to a., does anyone have a patch for the above problem.
Check out ("cvs update") kernel/ksyms.c -r1.107 and kernel/sched.c
-r1.124.
--
Martin
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1999-02-24 22:34 semaphore-helper.h nsheeley
1999-02-25 7:18 ` semaphore-helper.h Martin Costabel
1999-02-25 8:15 ` Martin Costabel [this message]
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