From: David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/24/92


From: david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe)
Subject: Re: 0.97 patch 2 problems
Date: 24 Aug 1992 21:38:18 GMT


In article <1992Aug24.125204.16144@athena.mit.edu> chchen@stat.fsu.edu writes:

> I got both 0.97 patch 2 file and whole kernel source codes. I applied
> the patch to my original patch 1.5 source (modified during installing
> GCC 2.2.2d), had a make and used the new image to reboot. Two problems
> occurred: the mount from 0.97p1 root image produced a core dump and
> the PS just showed the title line.

I have just compiled kernel 0.97 pl 2 and mount still works.
However, I am still using root 0.96 and its associated mount. This
may indicate that the problem was introduced with root 0.97 or 0.97
pl 1.

> Using the whole new kernel source to re-make again I had the same
> problems. So now I am using 0.97 p1.5 again.
> Any clue?
> BTW, according the note in GCC 2.2.2d installation script, we should
> delete "-nostdinc -I" from the line
> CC=gcc -nostdinc -I$(KERNELHDRS)
> in the Makefile. This causes some compiling messages saying that
> the directory is not linked and the included files will not be used.
> Anyway, I can still got the kernel compiled this way.
>
> Steve Chen chchen@stat.fsu.edu
>
>

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