Subject: Re: NetBSD/alpha installboot
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/30/2001 21:15:52
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:35:01PM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> Dear NetBSD/i386:
> 
> I want to make an image on a NetBSD/i386 machine for a CD which will boot
> an Alpha, so I need to build the NetBSD/alpha version of installboot.  I've
> extracted these two files
> 
>     usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand/installboot/Makefile
>     usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand/installboot/installboot.c
> 
> from syssrc.tgz into an empty directory and run make.  The result was this
> error message:
> 
>     Makefile:5: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> I presume I'm making a silly mistake.  Could someone put me on the right
> track, please?

This won't work as is. You need a few alpha-specific includes,
like disklabel.h. It's possible that you need the whole sys directory tree.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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