Craig Sanders writes: > > > On Thu, 23 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I tried the procedure you (and a couple of others) suggested. I currently > > have debian 0.93R6 installed and am trying to compile the kernel from > > devel/source-1.3.64-0.deb > > You've got the wrong kernel version. These instructions only apply to > recent kernel versions, 1.3.97 or later. > > > I also tried doing "make zImage" I get > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.64/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 > > -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 > > -DNFS_ROOT="\"/tftpboot/%s\"" -c -o init/main.o init/main> > .c > > cc1: Invalid option `align-loops=2' > > cc1: Invalid option `align-jumps=2' > > cc1: Invalid option `align-functions=2' > > make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 > > > > I do have gcc version 2.6.3 so I don't think that should be a problem. > > Any ideas? > > No idea. As a wild guess i'd suspect that maybe you're trying to compile > an ELF kernel with an a.out only gcc.
This is a possibility. I will look into that further. > > If this is the case, then you can 'make config' again to de-select the > "compile kernel as ELF?" option and recompile...or you can upgrade to > ELF. > > Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has written some good notes on how to > upgrade from 0.93r6 to 1.1 - he posts them semi-regularly to the debian > mailing lists - if you follow them to the point of updating to ELF ld.so > and libc5, then you can upgrade to the latest gcc and libc5-dev, then > you can compile an ELF kernel. > > Note, you may need to first compile an a.out kernel with ELF binary support > built in (NOT as a module - ld.so won't let you upgrade to the latest > version if ELF support is not in the kernel), reboot on that, and then do > the upgrade as written by Dale. > > > > I'd suggest upgrading to the beta 1.1, keeping track of (and reporting) > any bugs which affect you and upgrading only the packages affected as > fixes come out. When 1.1 goes from beta to release status, do a full > upgrade again. > > Debian 1.1 might still be called 'unstable', but that refers more to the > fact that packages are being upgraded every day with new versions. As far > as functionality goes, it's at least as stable and reliable as 0.93r6. > > The hard part is doing the initial upgrade from 0.93r6 to 1.1 - you've > got to take that slowly and carefully. As I mentioned, Dale has written > some very good instructions on how to do this. If you think about what > you're doing and pause for a second before hitting the enter key you > wont run into any trouble. After that, subsequent upgrades will be no > hassle at all - it's just the switch from a.out to ELF which makes the > upgrade a little dangerous if performed without thought. Is doing a slow upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 a better idea than trying a clean installation of 1.1? I actually tried doing a complete wipe of my hard disk and installing 1.1 from scratch. Unfortunately, the packages at that time for lib5-dev, cpp, and gcc kept conflicting with each other and dselect would not allow me to install them (even though dselect suggested that I should be able to install thing properly). So, I wiped my hard drive and installed 0.93R6 which went without any problems. Have installation problems been reported for lib5-dev that have recently been fixed? Richard.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada ---------------------------------------------------------------------
