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- From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Re: compiling 0.97p5
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.024914.8424@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:49:14 GMT
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- In article <kegzWfS00WBM44l0x3@andrew.cmu.edu> ce12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Aaron Ekberg) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >Until now, I have never had any problems upgrading kernels. I am
- >currently running 0.97pl4 (upgraded originally from 0.97.2 MCC), and
- >when I applied patch 5, everything looked ok. But when I make'ed it,
- >make choked: in init/main.c, mem_init had the wrong number of
- >parameters! It wanted two, and it had three:
- >(low_memory_start,memory_start,memory_end) or something like that.
-
- [Description of errors deleted]
-
- >
- >This exact thing happened when I tried to make from the 0.97.5 sources.
- >
- >Am I missing some files or anything? Incorrect libs/headers? I did ln
- >-fs the include directories (and the asm dirs). I haven't seen anyone
- >else having these problems! I know that a new version will be out
- >shortly, but I would really like to figure this out.
-
- Oops. Okay, guys: the ln -fs will NOT work correctly if you ALREADY have
- the target directory at the time you make the link. I.e. if you do
-
- % mkdir foo
- % ln -fs bar foo
-
- You end up with the link "bar" being *inside* the directory foo, as in
-
- foo/bar -> foo
-
- I don't know if this is "correct" behavior or not, but this is what happened
- to me when I made those links because (of course) the /usr/include/linux and
- /usr/include/asm directories were already in existence when I made the
- link, so it put the link inside those directories. The solution: either
- rename or nuke the two existing directories, then make the link.
-
- mdw
-
-
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