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 16:08:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:08:00 -0400 Received: from jffdns01.or.intel.com ([134.134.248.3]:4601 "EHLO ganymede.or.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:49 -0400 Message-ID: <9678C2B4D848D41187450090276D1FAE0635F02F@FMSMSX32> From: "Cress, Andrew R" To: "'hch@caldera.de'" , thockin@sun.com Cc: Linux kernel Subject: RE: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:33:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Try setting CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE=n as a workaround. -----Original Message----- From: hch@caldera.de [mailto:hch@caldera.de] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:04 PM To: thockin@sun.com Cc: Linux kernel; root@chaos.analogic.com Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/