> 
> I'm having problems re-compiling a kernel from TDR2 using the
> binaries from sun-lamp.
> 
> the make depend works fine, but make blows up on ../../sparc/locore.s
> with the assembler barfing on two instances of beq,a and one instance
> of an ENTRY (copyinstr)
> 
> is this a well known gotcha bootstrapping a system? I can't see anything
> in the mailing-list archives.

Get a newer assembler source from sun-lamp first. Some of the bugs have been
taken out. Though, gas still has problems with some of the freedoms apparently
granted to ANSI preprocessors when expanding macros.

-pk

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