Subject: Re: Trouble building GENERIC_TINY
To: Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/05/2000 15:01:51
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:39:30PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build a GENERIC_TINY kernel (on a Linux host).  I am getting
> errors like:
> 
> /u2/scratch/cc0ILDez.s: Assembler messages:
> /u2/scratch/cc0ILDez.s:3223: Warning: warning: missing prefix `*' in
> absolute indirect address, maybe misassembled!
> /u2/scratch/cc0ILDez.s:3234: Warning: warning: missing prefix `*' in
> absolute indirect address, maybe misassembled!
> /u2/scratch/cc0ILDez.s:5187: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in first operand.
> /u2/scratch/cc0ILDez.s:5188: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in first operand.
> 
> I'm using:
> 
> gcc 2.95 with gas 2.9.1.  Do I need more recent versions or am I doing
> something else wrong here?  This is my first crack at building a NetBSD
> kernel.  Thanks,

Did you build a croos-tollchain for NetBSD ? You can't build a NetBSD
kernel with a linux toolchain.
I'm not sure a kernel will build cleanly with 2.95 yet. NetBSD still ships
with egcs-1.1.2.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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