From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) Subject: Re: README (Re: Compiling the Linux kernel) Date: 1 Jul 1992 23:46:44 GMT
najem@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Zeyad H. Najem) writes:
>>I bet you didn't install 0.96bp2inc.tar.Z AND modify all the Makefiles
>>to get rid of "-nostdinc -Ixxx". To use gcc, you have to know the
>>meaning of every option in CFLAGS. Please read gcc.ps/gcc.man and all
>>docs again.
>You lose. I did install the 0.96bp2inc.tar.Z AND modified all the
>makefiles to get rid of the nostdinc -Ixxx. The instructions for
>gcc2.2.2 instrcuts to delete foo/bar/src/linux/include/*.h which would
>delete stddef.h and stdarg.h. The remaining of the steps fail to
>create or supply new ones.
I think the steps are out of order in the README; they say to rm -f
/usr/src/linux/include/*.h before doing
cd /usr
(cd foo/src/linux; tar cf - ./include) | tar xof -
I did those two steps first and have had no problems.