Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

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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