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.
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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