From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 13:49:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 13:49:05 -0400 Received: from patan.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.43]:7886 "EHLO patan.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 13:48:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3B040C80.C2A7BC6@sun.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:38:08 -0700 From: Tim Hockin Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "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). -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances thockin@sun.com