problem configuring for a mips platform

problem configuring for a mips platform

[Nick Brown]

While trying to configure the 2.4.7 kernel for cross compilation to a new 
mips platform I get the following errors;

> ls
COPYING         MAINTAINERS  REPORTING-BUGS  drivers/  init/    lib/  scripts/
CREDITS         Makefile     Rules.make      fs/       ipc/     mm/
Documentation/  README       arch/           include/  kernel/  net/
> make ARCH=mips xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-mips asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nicbrown/cross/linux/scripts'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o 
tkparse.cgcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o 
tkcond.o tkcond.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkgen.o tkgen.c
gcc -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/mips/config.in >> kconfig.tk
-: 364: unable to open drivers/message/i2o/Config.in
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nicbrown/cross/linux/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
>

Is this a bug, or am I missing something. This is in a freshly un tarred 
source directory. Do I need to edit anything or add more to the make command?

Cheers,
Nick

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Re: problem configuring for a mips platform

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:23:53PM +0000, Nick Brown wrote:
> While trying to configure the 2.4.7 kernel for cross compilation to a new 
> mips platform I get the following errors;

The mips (and mipsel) platforms are not yet fully up to date in the plain
Linus kernel. Please check out the current CVS version. For explanation
see http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html

MfG, JBG

Re: problem configuring for a mips platform

[Nick Brown]

On Friday 27 July 2001  2:31 pm, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> The mips (and mipsel) platforms are not yet fully up to date in the plain
> Linus kernel. Please check out the current CVS version. For explanation
> see http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html

Cheers,
that seems to work, but when I quite xconfig (saving config) I get the 
following error;

ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_VT).
ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_SERIAL).
ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable 
(CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS).
ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_RTC).

These check boxes behave strangly in xconfig.

Nick

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