Compiling 2.1.61/Alpha

Dave Wreski (dave@nic.com)
Sat, 01 Nov 1997 02:52:06 -0500 (EST)

Hi all. I just got an XLT300, after only using i386-based linux boxes before.

Apparently ./linux/README hasn't been updated to include directions on
compiling an alpha kernel yet..

Can someone tell me the steps to compile a kernel? I gather 'make vmlinux' is
used to create the image, but after 'make dep', I receive:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.1.61/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c
sched.c
sched.c: In function `wake_up_process':
sched.c:172: warning: `__r16' might be used uninitialized in this function
sched.c:176: warning: `__r16' might be used uninitialized in this function
sched.c: In function `process_timeout':

etc, etc..

This is a uni-processor box, so I've commented out SMP=1 in the Makefile.

Also, there are several xconfig options that are not available in menuconfig.
Are we just not at the stage of syncing these yet?

Dave