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- From: flebbe@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Olaf Flebbe)
- Subject: Re: more problems building ST Minix 1.6.23
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- Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
- References: <1992Dec30.124438.17622@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:59:17 GMT
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- powers@asd.enet.dec.com (Bill Powers) writes:
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- > I am having difficulty building ST Minix 1.6.23. Maybe someone
- >could enlighten me as to what I might be doing wrong. Here are
- >the steps I took to try to get it to work.
-
- >1) I loaded my 1.5.10 sources into a source tree.
-
- >2) I applied Andy's 1.6.23 diffs & patches from an ftp site.
-
- >3) I applied Frans's patches he posted on comp.os.minix.
-
- >At this point all source CRC's looked fine except for the few in
- >the libraries that I had mentioned in a previous post. But that
- >turned out to be a non issue.
-
- >4) I modified config.h to match my system.
-
- >5) I built the library files that Frans calls out in his install
- > doc. The only thing I had to do here which wasn't called out
- > was to edit 68000/setjmp.s. The assembler wouldn't assemble
- > this file due to syntax errors. I had to add a '.' in front
- > of the first 11 lines of source directives. Then it assembled.
- Strange. I guess you have a corrupt version of lib files. The file I
- got was correct. I don't have any idea what went wrong.
-
- >6) I replaced the specified files in libc.a that Frans calls out
- > in his install doc.
-
- >7) Although it wasn't listed in the install doc, there have been
- > several posts which seem to indicate that one must build cv
- > before building the kernel. So I built cv, and coppied it to
- > /usr/lib.
- You should place your old head.o end.o and cv at a secure place, so
- that you can quickly change back, when an error occurs. I had to copy
- the files many times until I finally did the upgrade.
-
- >8) I went into src/fs and did a make. It compiled everything, and
- > seemed to do the ld then it went to do the 'cv tmp fs' & make
- > aborted with an error -256. I tried to do the cv by hand and
- > it did nothing. I then just entered cv with no parameters, and
- > it did nothing, not even print out a usage line, and from looking
- > at the source, it should do.
- Any more error messages?
-
- >Questions:
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- >A) When building cv do you use the new libc.a or the old one?
- cv is only needed if you want to have a minix executable. i.e. it is
- not needed for makeing a lib.
-
- >B) When building cv do you use the new include files or the old
- > ones?
- First step: Making a cross-cv: i.e. Using the *old* lib, the *old*
- includes to making a cross-cv (a 1.5.10 executable to generate a
- 1.6.23 executable). I used it to generate a new kernel. And
- remember: You need a *old* lib, and an *old* include to make a *new*
- build. After 1.6.23 was running I made a new cv (*new* header *new*
- lib.
-
- >C) When building cv do you have to copy the new head.o end.o
- > & crtso.o to /usr/lib?
- No. see above. But when you are makeing a *new* kernel, fs, mm, init
- you need a new lib, new header new end, head.
-
- >D) If not, when must this be done if at all?
- It works, but it is very puzzling.
-
- >E) I also can't find a crtso.s in the source tree, there is
- > a ncrtso.s. Is this what I should use instead of crtso.s?
- > After assembly, do you need to rename it to crtso.o?
- I didn't touch my /usr/lib/crtso.o
-
- >F) I seem to get the impression the new command binconv is to
- > convert the 1.5.10 binaries to 1.6.23. Is that correct?
- > At what point in the process do you need to compile this?
- It is correct. You will need it if you wan't to deal with
- commands form 1.6.23 like chmem. These commands look at the file
- header and don't recognize 1.5 execs as an valid a.out file. binconv
- can help you patching this header. You will need it (perhaps) after
- you have changed to the new 1.6.23 kernel. So compile it with the new
- lib include etc.
-
-
- --
- Olaf Flebbe, Theoretische Astrophysik Tuebingen
- Internet: flebbe@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
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