hi: 2011/1/9 KK <nitric.acid@xxxxxx>: > Hello All, > I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in > kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the > tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from : > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > > Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code > and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls > etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following > errors: > > $ make -f Makefile > gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s > make: gas: Command not found > make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 127 > > Then I searched in the web for GAS and found that it GNU AS. I've "as" > installed in my box, so I tried creating a symlink with the name "gas" > but then bumped into another error: > > $ make > gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s > gas: unrecognized option `-c' > make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 1 > > Is GNU AS same as "as" ? when running version check I got this: > $ as --version > GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410 > Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the > terms of > the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. > This program has absolutely no warranty. > This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-cygwin'. > > I tried searching on the web to find ways to install "GNU AS" but could > not get any useful info. I'm facing similar problem with "GNU LD". Is it > different from the "ld": > $ ld --version > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410 > Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the > terms of > the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a > later version. > This program has absolutely no warranty. > > Can someone help me installing these two or let me know what is the fix > for the same. > > I'm running cygwin on Win7-64 bit I have never try this before, but I can give you some suggestions that I may try: 1. check Makefile and modify AS as the name on your machine. 2. try alias the gas with as on your cygiwn machine. 3. use a managed mount; this will help you avoid some file name case-sensitivity issues that crop up in the kernel source code (ex, the netfiler code uses file names that differ only in case). http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html PS: about item3 is excerpted from http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00737.html BTW, I sincerely suggest you may find any useful information on cygwin mailing list. Since most of people on cygwin can compile kernel successfully. HTH, miloody _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
