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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Rob Cermak <cermak@imcs.rutgers.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes & hunting
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:58:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11307.984106689@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:00:25 CDT." <Pine.SOL.4.21.0103082052430.902-100000@imcs.rutgers.edu>

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:00:25 -0500 (EST), 
Rob Cermak <cermak@IMCS.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>Included some info on things needed to compile 2.4.2-ac16.   Feel free to
>further edit and comment.  Patched against -ac16.   [linux = ac16; my
>edited version is ac14].
>+o  flex                   2.5.4                   # flex --version
>+o  bison                  1.28                    # bison --version
>+o  db                     3.1.17 (1)              # strings /lib/libdb.so | grep Sleep | grep DB
>+o  yacc                   (2)

No.  Building the kernel must not rely on userspace tools like yacc and
lex and certainly not on db.  The fact that aic7xxx requires these
tools is a problem for aic7xxx, not for the entire kernel.  We are
working on fixing aic7xxx to build without the user space tools.


      reply	other threads:[~2001-03-09  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-09  2:00 [PATCH] Documentation/Changes & hunting Rob Cermak
2001-03-09  2:58 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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