Re: Still having a problem building elks kernel

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Harley Laue <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dieter R Kedrowitsch
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> With the help of a few folks on here I've gotten pretty far with building
>> the elks kernel, but it looks like I have one more problem before the image
>> will build.  It seems there is a syntax error in the makefile ld86.
>> Has anyone else run into this?
>>
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/elks/arch/i86/drivers/block'
>> (cd ../.. ; ld86 -0 -i   \
>>       arch/i86/boot/crt0.o arch/i86/boot/crt1.o \
>>       init/main.o kernel/kernel.a fs/fs.a lib/lib.a net/net.a
>> fs/minix/minixfs.a arch/i86/kernel/akernel.a arch/i86/lib/lib86.a
>> arch/i86/mm/mm.a  arch/i86/drivers/char/chr_drv.a
>> arch/i86/drivers/block/blk_drv.a \
>>       -t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system > System.tmp ; \
>>       sort -k4 System.tmp > System.map ; rm -f System.tmp )
>> usage: ld86 [-03NMdimrstz[-]] [-llib_extension] [-o outfile] [-Ccrtfile]
>>      [-Llibdir] [-Olibfile] [-Ttextaddr] [-Ddataaddr] [-Hheapsize] infile...
>> tools/build boot/bootsect boot/setup boot/system > boot/Image
>> Root device is (3, -128)
>> Non-Minix header of 'boot'
>> make[1]: *** [Image] Error 1
>
> Sorry, I meant to get back to you sooner. I run into the exact same
> thing with Debian, but not Arch Linux.
> Here's the last little bit from Make on Arch which seems to work (I
> don't have the means to actually test it though)
>
> as86 -0  -o boot/crt0.o boot/crt0.s
> (cd ../.. ; ld86 -0 -i   \
>                -t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system \
>                arch/i86/boot/crt0.o arch/i86/boot/crt1.o \
>                init/main.o kernel/kernel.a fs/fs.a lib/lib.a
> net/net.a fs/minix/minixfs.a arch/i86/kernel/akernel.a
> arch/i86/lib/lib86.a arch/i86/mm/mm.a  arch/i86/drivers/char/chr_drv.a
> arch/i86/drivers/block/blk_drv.a \
>                > System.tmp ; \
>                sort -k4 System.tmp > System.map ; rm -f System.tmp )
> tools/build boot/bootsect boot/setup boot/system > boot/Image
> Root device is (3, -128)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 1596 bytes.
> System is 117788 B (58784 B code, 7728 B data and 51276 B bss)
> System is 66544
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/harley/Source/elks-project/elks/arch/i86'
>
>
> Obviously the ld86 is failing in Debian/Ubuntu, but like I said, I
> haven't looked into why yet other then the fact that it looks like "-t
> -M -o arch/i86/boot/system \" isn't in the Debian/Ubuntu's ld86's
> command for some reason...

Well, I was partially wrong. It looks like it does have the same ld86
command, but the Debian/Ubuntu one is returning an empty boot/Image
file whereas on Arch it's returning a 68K file. But that's without
looking too far into it....
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