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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds
- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.233202.5198@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:32:02 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- >Linux version 0.99 is now available at nic.funet.fi, in the directory
- >pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as both full source and patches against
- >0.98.6. It will probably show up on the other major sites soon.
- [ rest deleted ]
-
- Ok, there seem to be a couple of problems with the configuration stuff:
- they are minor, but they can get a new user pretty confused. Here is how
- to fix them:
-
- 1) fs/isofs/inode.c tells you that it needs CDROM support when you
- pre-process it during running "make dep".
-
- this one has two different solutions:
-
- - remove the '#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR ... #error ... #endif'
- test in fs/isofs/inode.c
- or
- - use "make config" to include all the SCSI support: you can remove
- it later by doing another "make config" after you have your
- dependencies up-to-date. It's a problem only for "make dep", as
- a real make won't even enter the isofs subdirectory unless you
- have asked for the isofs filesystem (and then you do indeed need
- the CDROM support, so the error is valid)
-
- 2) linking the net/ subdirectory gives a "tcp/tcpip.a: no such file or
- directory" if you don't include the networking stuff in the config.
-
- simple solutions:
-
- - do a "ar cvs net/tcp/tcpip.a" to create an empty archive to get
- the linker happy (alternatively you can once more reconfigure with
- the tcp/ip support to get the archive created, and then configure
- it out again and re-making the kernel. That's essentially how I
- never saw this error when I tested the configs out..)
- or
- - edit the net/Makefile and just dike out the 'tcp/tcpip.a' (or put
- it behind a "ifdef" like the NET_SUBDIRECTORY..)
-
- Also, if you get the "unable to make cdefs.h" or similar, it probably
- means you haven't done a "make dep". Alternatively your installation
- has some problems.
-
- Sorry for the silly problems with the config stuff and hope that's the
- biggest problem with this release,
-
- Linus
-