PeeWeeLinux question...

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Thank you for sharing the solution you found regarding RedHat 7.0. I
forwarded your email to the PWL list as well for reference.

I am currently spending what little spare time I have left at building a
secure webserver to replace my aging server in place now. Once that has
been accomplished I will be looking at more PeeWeeLinux development.
Unfortunately I am left with very little time these days...

TTYL,
Adi 

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 Randy_Howard@Dell.com wrote:

> 
> Thanks, but I found a solution by brute force...  I was looking through
> the RedHat 7 image, and found /usr/bin/kgcc, which is of a different
> size than the normal /usr/bin/gcc.  I replaced gcc with kgcc in the
> Makefile, and the build was successful.  Digging around later on the
> RedHat website I found a "gotcha" entry describing the problem as:
> 
> "For various reasons, gcc is no longer able to compile the kernel from 
> source because it uses the 2.96 version of the GNU C Compiler. However, 
> it is still easy to compile your kernel, as version 2.91.66 of the egcs 
> C compiler has been included with the distribution".
> 
> that explains kgcc's purpose, although they don't bother to give
> specifics on what changed in gcc 2.96 that broke the kernel build.
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me anyway, I am really enjoying working
> with the PWL distribution so far.  If I could figure out what I am 
> doing wrong trying to get pump to work properly in my image (works
> fine for dhcp on the RedHat host) I'd be basically done.  I'm sure
> it's something minor.
> 
> It would be nice if the package included the newer XFree86 4.0.3 build 
> for support of the newer video devices.  Also, I noticed that the ICA 
> client including is an older one, Citrix has a 6.0.908 release, and PWL 
> has 3.00.77 in it.  
> 
> 
> Randy Howard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adi Linden [mailto:adi@adis.on.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 04:49 AM
> To: Randy_Howard@exchange.dell.com
> Subject: Re: PeeWeeLinux question...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Haven't came across this yet. Can you send me the kernel config file? That
> would allow me to recreate your build and see if it bombs on my system as
> well...
> 
> TTYL,
> Adi
> 
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 Randy_Howard@Dell.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am working on building up a very small image using the ISO CD image
> which
> > I downloaded yesterday.  It looks pretty good so far, but I do have a few
> > questions.  I suspect I'm missing something obvious and hopefully you have
> > seen this before...
> > 
> > First of all, I have been able to get an image installed onto a drive and
> > boot the kernel, so the basics seem to be working fine.  I am having
> trouble
> > building a custom kernel, which when done from within pwlconfig reports it
> > was successful, but I do not get a bzImage file in the custom kernel
> package
> > when it completes.  The package (in this case kernel-Target_64-2.2.17)
> > contains /boot, but no kernel.  I saw from the PeeWee website that
> building
> > the kernel from inside the tool is fairly new, so I decided to try it by
> > hand instead.
> > 
> > Building it manually from kernelbuild/usr/src/linux (2.2.17-13) under the
> > Embedded_Build tree fails on arch/i386/usr/lib/checksum.S.  That is quite
> > strange, since a diff of it and the same file on the host /usr/src/....
> > shows they are identical.  It fails on the #define definitions for SRC()
> and
> > DST().  The specific error messages are:
> > checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> > checksum.S:237: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> > 
> > Of course, that blows up the kernel build.    I suspect something is wrong
> > in the build environment, but haven't been able to track it down yet.  The
> > host machine is RedHat 7.0 (2.2.17-8) from Dell.
> > 
> > Any hints you might have would be very much appreciated...
> > 
> > 
> 

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