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- From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: From olvwm to bison to the kernel...
- Summary: One problem leads to another :-)
- Message-ID: <13431@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:03:42 GMT
- Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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- I started to compile up olvwm 3.2 on my linux system. I know its been
- done, but I wanted to fix the DIRMENU problem and the source code
- from tsx-11 didn't seem to include everything, so...
-
- I got the source from export, patched it up and off I went. Mostly
- minor ports, locale stuff, signal bits etc. Then it tried 'yacc
- olvwmrc.y".
-
- Of course, everyone knows that bison -y is the same, but this gave a
- "Too many open files error" in the makefile. Trying it from the
- command line give a "No more processes error".
-
- Question 1: Is the problem with bison and olvwmrc.y (version 1.3)?
-
- Anyway, knowing that the number of processes is likely to be
- configurable I rummaged around in the kernel (0.98pl1) and found
- NR_TASKS with a comment that said I could change it, so I doubled it
- from 64 to 128 and recompiled - no problem.
-
- BUT this kernel will not boot for me using LILO 0.6. Luckily I kept
- the old one and I have gone back to that.
-
- Question 2: Is it safe to change NR_TASKS to anything I like?
-
- Well, any comments and advice would be appreciated (via email - unless
- you think everyone wants to know). My last resort is to use yacc on a
- workstation here at work, but I would hate to think there was something
- SunOS could do that Linux couldn't :-)
-
- Mark.
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- Mark Dobie M.R.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
- University of Southampton M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)
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