Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:23:34 +0100 (BST) | From | Anton Ivanov <> | Subject | RE: No network = no compile ??? |
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On 20-Aug-99 Linux Lists wrote: > > Hello, > > Yesterday I faced a very weird problem, and I don't know what to guess. > Please help me out. > > My department's switch was down, which disconnected my systems from the > network (and, thus, from the Internet, DNS server, and so on). In this > situation, I couldn't compile the kernel !!! If I did a 'make bzlilo', it > would get stuck in the first compilation (main.c). Why is that ?? > > Once the network came back up, I could compile the kernel as usual, > without having to change anything in the Linux system.
Somewhere in the beginning of the compile there is a script that determines who@where compiles. Compile may fail if it returns an error.
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