Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin

["Chris du Quesnay" <duquesnay@hotmail.com>]

Hi Dick.  Thanks for your suggestion.

I tried it, however, and attempted the make again, and got the same error.

The scripts/basic directory contains a fixdep.exe after the make is run.  
There is
no fixdep file.  I tried renaming the fixdep.exe to fixdep, but that also 
resulted in
the same make error.

Any further suggestions?
Thx,
Chris.


>From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
>Reply-To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
>To: "Chris du Quesnay" <duquesnay@hotmail.com>
>CC: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>Subject: Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin
>Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:42:46 -0400
>
>
>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Chris du Quesnay wrote:
>
> > Hi.  I am newbie at GNU/linux.
> >
> > I am trying to build a kernel (2.6.12)  for a powerpc target using 
>cygwin on
> > my i686 machine.  I have
> > Windows 2000 as my operating system.
> >
> > I have recent versions of cygwin (with GNU make 3.80), binutils for the
> > powerpc (gcc v 3.3.1, ld v 2.14)
> >
> > I set
> > ARCH=ppc
> > CROSS_COMPILE= powerpc-ibm-eabi-
> >
> > and I add the cross compiler/build directory to my path.
> >
> > After untaring the kernel, I issue the
> > make mrproper, which appears to work.
> >
> > Then I issue
> > make menuconfig
> >
> > and I get the following error, which I can't seem to get around:
> >
> > HOSTCC   scripts/basic/fixdep
> > fixdep: no such file or directory
> > make[1]:*** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 2
> > make[1] Leaving directory /cygdrive/c/Linux_amcc/linux-2.6.12
> >
> >
> > Can you suggest what the problem might be?  Should I be able to build 
>the
> > kernel
> > with cygwin?
> >
>
>Try this temporary work-around:
>
>cd /cygdrive/c/Linux_amcc/linux-2.6.12/scripts/basic
>gcc -O2 -o fixdep fixdep.c
>
>You may also have to do the same thing for docproc, i.e.,
>gcc -O2 -o docproc docproc.c
>
>Others may tell you what's wrong, but at least this should get
>you started.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Dick Johnson
>Penguin : Linux version 2.6.12.5 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
>Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
>.
>I apologize for the following. I tried to kill it with the above dot :
>
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