compiling the kernel

[Pierfrancesco Caci <p.caci@seabone.net>]

Do make xconfig and make menuconfig work for you ?

etabeta:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/scripts'
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/sparc64/config.in >> kconfig.tk
-: 200: unable to open drivers/message/fusion/Config.in
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2


etabeta:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/sparc64/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 17997 Illegal instruction     awk "$1"
Awk died with error code 132. Giving up.
..........scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu17: line 120: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu17: line 121: syntax error: unexpected end of file
.......scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu6: line 361: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu6: line 362: syntax error: unexpected end of file
...done.


Your kernel configuration changes were NOT saved.



make menuconfig manages to starts but the only options it presents are
"load from file" and "save to file"

I'm sure I'm missing other idiosincracies of the sparc arch... :-)

Ciao

Pf



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