Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:35:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:34:56 -0400 Received: from mta.sara.nl ([145.100.16.144]:13805 "EHLO mta.sara.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:34:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:39:49 +0200 Subject: Re: 2.5.38 on ppc/prep Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Rini From: Remco Post In-Reply-To: <20020923142951.GO726@opus.bloom.county> Message-Id: <4FDC416F-CF02-11D6-A08A-000393911DE2@sara.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1785 Lines: 51 On maandag, september 23, 2002, at 04:29 , Tom Rini wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:03:02PM +0200, Remco Post wrote: > >> after some tiny fixes to reiserfs and the makefile for prep bootfile >> (using ../lib/lib.a vs. ../lib/libz.a) I managed to succesfully compile >> a kernel. It even boots to the point where it frees unused kernel >> memory >> and then stops... this includes succesfully mounting the root >> filesystem... > > What typo exactly? The only 'lib' in the Makefile > (arch/ppc/boot/prep/Makefile) is: > LIBS = ../lib/zlib.a > That one exactly... I don't recall calling it a typo, though ;-) I guess that is more a relic from when the only lib routines were libz ones and we called the lib to be linked libz.a.... There is a simular entry in arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/Makefile... removing the z helped over there as well (don't recall exactly, I'm at work now... ) (not that I dare booting Linus's 2.5 tree on my build machine, it's falling apart even with stable software.... ;-( > -- > Tom Rini (TR1265) > http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ > -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 PGP keys at http://home.sara.nl/~remco/keys.asc "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/