Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 20:03:34 +0200 | From | (Christoph Hellwig) | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile |
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In article <3B040C80.C2A7BC6@sun.com> you wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: >> >> Hello; >> >> I downloaded linux-2.4.4. The basic kernel compiles but the aic7xxx >> SCSI module that I require on some machines, doesn't.
> The aic7xxx assembler requiring libdb1 is a bungle. Getting the headers > for that right on various distros is not easy. Add to that it requires > YACC, when most people have bison (yes, a shell script is easy to make, but > not always an option).
If make wants to use yacc but you don't have it, it's probably a mistake in the make(1) configuration - the Makefile uses implicit rules and distributions not having yacc should not call it in make's implicit rules.
Christoph
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