I finally got the kernel to build with 686 support after building
"gas.new" and "libbfd."   This was not clearly documented in UPDATING,
but I haven't looked at the latest version.

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:39PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > Surely the new toolchain should have built a new gas for me if
> > necessary. Right?
> 
> Aha, "No, it won't. That would be too easy and entirely the point of
> using the new toolchain. You really do still have to go over
> UPDATING with a fine-toothed comb."
> 
> Oh, okay, fine, so I'll build gas myself.
> 
> Whoops, no I won't:
> 
> grappa:usr.bin/gas.new# pwd
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new
> grappa:usr.bin/gas.new# make && make install
> cc -O2  -Werror   -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/arch/i386  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/config -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libbfd/obj  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/bfd -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/include -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEFAULT_ELF -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/app.c
> In file included from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/app.c:29:
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/as.h:142: bfd.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/arch/i386/obj-format.h:2,
>                  from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/config/te-nbsd.h:24,
>                  from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/arch/i386/targ-env.h:1,
>                  from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/as.h:599,
>                  from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/app.c:29:
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new/../../dist/gas/config/obj-elf.h:32: bfd.h: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new
> 
> There's no bfd.h in my (unupdated) /usr/include, but there's also
> none in /usr/src/include, so I don't think a make includes is going
> to change much.
> 
> Help? Am I between commits here?
> 
> -- 
>        ~ g r @ eclipsed.net
>