Re: Building the kernel with Cygwin

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:05:24PM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Chris du Quesnay wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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'
>
> How about a symlink?
>
> ln -s fixdep.exe fixdep
>

Maybe I don't know.

I have Cygwin on my laptop, but never put the kernel on it so
I haven't tried.

> cgf
> --
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>

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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