From: hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig)
To: thockin@sun.com (Tim Hockin)
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, root@chaos.analogic.com
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:03:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105171803.f4HI3Yv29128@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B040C80.C2A7BC6@sun.com>
In article <3B040C80.C2A7BC6@sun.com> you wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>>
>> Hello;
>>
>> I downloaded linux-2.4.4. The basic kernel compiles but the aic7xxx
>> SCSI module that I require on some machines, doesn't.
> The aic7xxx assembler requiring libdb1 is a bungle. Getting the headers
> for that right on various distros is not easy. Add to that it requires
> YACC, when most people have bison (yes, a shell script is easy to make, but
> not always an option).
If make wants to use yacc but you don't have it, it's probably a mistake
in the make(1) configuration - the Makefile uses implicit rules and
distributions not having yacc should not call it in make's implicit rules.
Christoph
--
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-17 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-17 17:23 Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-17 17:38 ` Tim Hockin
2001-05-17 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-05-17 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-17 18:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-17 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-18 6:32 ` Lorenzo Marcantonio
2001-05-18 10:41 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-05-19 12:16 ` David Weinehall
2001-05-17 18:33 Cress, Andrew R
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