From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <36D506B0.72582B7E@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:15:44 +0100 From: Martin Costabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nsheeley@austin.rr.com CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: semaphore-helper.h References: <013092421221829FE5@mail5.austin.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]