Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Chris du Quesnay wrote:

> Hi Dick.  Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> I tried it, however, and attempted the make again, and got the same error.
>
> The scripts/basic directory contains a fixdep.exe after the make is run.
> There is
> no fixdep file.  I tried renaming the fixdep.exe to fixdep, but that also
> resulted in
> the same make error.
>
> Any further suggestions?
> Thx,
> Chris.
>

Ah yes! The Makefile will not execute 'fixdep.exe` it executes
'fixdep' --hard coded. I don't know how well cygwin emulates
a Unix environment, but maybe you can use an alias???
.. Like...
alias fixdep='fixdep.exe'

If that doesn't work, you will probably find other problems
also, like the "*.o" files become "*.obj", etc. It might be
a lost cause. If it was my system, I'd get another hard-disk,
have a "regular" distribution install Linux on it, and set up
to dual-boot.

>
>> From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
>> Reply-To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
>> To: "Chris du Quesnay" <duquesnay@hotmail.com>
>> CC: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>> Subject: Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin
>> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:42:46 -0400
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Chris du Quesnay wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.  I am newbie at GNU/linux.
>>>
>>> I am trying to build a kernel (2.6.12)  for a powerpc target using
>> cygwin on
>>> my i686 machine.  I have
>>> Windows 2000 as my operating system.
>>>
>>> I have recent versions of cygwin (with GNU make 3.80), binutils for the
>>> powerpc (gcc v 3.3.1, ld v 2.14)
>>>
>>> I set
>>> ARCH=ppc
>>> CROSS_COMPILE= powerpc-ibm-eabi-
>>>
>>> and I add the cross compiler/build directory to my path.
>>>
>>> After untaring the kernel, I issue the
>>> make mrproper, which appears to work.
>>>
>>> Then I issue
>>> make menuconfig
>>>
>>> and I get the following error, which I can't seem to get around:
>>>
>>> HOSTCC   scripts/basic/fixdep
>>> fixdep: no such file or directory
>>> make[1]:*** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 2
>>> make[1] Leaving directory /cygdrive/c/Linux_amcc/linux-2.6.12
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you suggest what the problem might be?  Should I be able to build
>> the
>>> kernel
>>> with cygwin?
>>>
>>
>> Try this temporary work-around:
>>
>> cd /cygdrive/c/Linux_amcc/linux-2.6.12/scripts/basic
>> gcc -O2 -o fixdep fixdep.c
>>
>> You may also have to do the same thing for docproc, i.e.,
>> gcc -O2 -o docproc docproc.c
>>
>> Others may tell you what's wrong, but at least this should get
>> you started.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dick Johnson
>> Penguin : Linux version 2.6.12.5 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
>> Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
>> .
>> I apologize for the following. I tried to kill it with the above dot :
>>
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Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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