On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dieter R Kedrowitsch <dieter.kedrowitsch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With the help of a few folks on here I've gotten pretty far with building > the elks kernel, but it looks like I have one more problem before the image > will build. It seems there is a syntax error in the makefile ld86. > Has anyone else run into this? > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/elks/arch/i86/drivers/block' > (cd ../.. ; ld86 -0 -i \ > arch/i86/boot/crt0.o arch/i86/boot/crt1.o \ > init/main.o kernel/kernel.a fs/fs.a lib/lib.a net/net.a > fs/minix/minixfs.a arch/i86/kernel/akernel.a arch/i86/lib/lib86.a > arch/i86/mm/mm.a arch/i86/drivers/char/chr_drv.a > arch/i86/drivers/block/blk_drv.a \ > -t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system > System.tmp ; \ > sort -k4 System.tmp > System.map ; rm -f System.tmp ) > usage: ld86 [-03NMdimrstz[-]] [-llib_extension] [-o outfile] [-Ccrtfile] > [-Llibdir] [-Olibfile] [-Ttextaddr] [-Ddataaddr] [-Hheapsize] infile... > tools/build boot/bootsect boot/setup boot/system > boot/Image > Root device is (3, -128) > Non-Minix header of 'boot' > make[1]: *** [Image] Error 1 Sorry, I meant to get back to you sooner. I run into the exact same thing with Debian, but not Arch Linux. Here's the last little bit from Make on Arch which seems to work (I don't have the means to actually test it though) as86 -0 -o boot/crt0.o boot/crt0.s (cd ../.. ; ld86 -0 -i \ -t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system \ arch/i86/boot/crt0.o arch/i86/boot/crt1.o \ init/main.o kernel/kernel.a fs/fs.a lib/lib.a net/net.a fs/minix/minixfs.a arch/i86/kernel/akernel.a arch/i86/lib/lib86.a arch/i86/mm/mm.a arch/i86/drivers/char/chr_drv.a arch/i86/drivers/block/blk_drv.a \ > System.tmp ; \ sort -k4 System.tmp > System.map ; rm -f System.tmp ) tools/build boot/bootsect boot/setup boot/system > boot/Image Root device is (3, -128) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 1596 bytes. System is 117788 B (58784 B code, 7728 B data and 51276 B bss) System is 66544 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/harley/Source/elks-project/elks/arch/i86' Obviously the ld86 is failing in Debian/Ubuntu, but like I said, I haven't looked into why yet other then the fact that it looks like "-t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system \" isn't in the Debian/Ubuntu's ld86's command for some reason... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html