Subject: kernel compile problems
To: None <bryan@bwyan.anu.edu.au>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@jericho.mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/27/1994 11:34:06
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:11:50 +1000
> From: bryan collins <bryan@bwyan.anu.edu.au>

> I'm trying to compile a kernel with src from 12th September, and I get
> lots of errors just after typing make.
> 
> Some of the errors as follows:
> 
> cpp [...] ../../i386/locore.s | as  -o locore.o

> ../../i386/locore.s:144: unterminated character constant

Looks like you are running cpp in ANSI mode, and that does not work
for processing assembly files.  Add the -traditional flag.

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