On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:19:22PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> Just tried to build 2.4.3, got:
>
> make[6]: Entering directory
> `/usr/local/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'
> gcc -I/usr/include -ldb1 aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c
> aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm
> aicasm/aicasm_gram.y:45: ../queue.h: No such file or directory
> aicasm/aicasm_gram.y:50: aicasm.h: No such file or directory
...
> `/usr/local/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'
> ...
> Looks like something's missing here. Had 2.4.2 patched to 2.4.3-pre7, backed
> out pre7 and applied 2.4.3.
Yes, "-I." from gcc flags.
The sad part is that people have been patching right and left to get
that monster utility to compile because the dependencies say that it
must be used to remake the AIC sequencer binary image; which image is
perfectly ok except of its timestampts due to patching process.
Sources from a tarball never get to this, because Linus has suffered
the episode of patching it in, and compiling once -> timestamps are
such that the resulting binary (ok, hex version of it) is newer than
the source.
There are two bugs in those aic7xxx/aicasm makefile(s):
- Missing that -I. parameter for ${CC}
- Having any sort of dependency from sequencer's images
hexified binary (which the driver includes) to its source.
While mr. Gibbs is right that it makes a lot of sense to supply
the entire tool-chain to generate all generated parts of the aic7xxx
driver, nobody should be forced to do the compilation, or then
'make mrproper' should throw away the hexified sequencer code...
Compiling of the sequencer source should be *some* make target in
that driver directory, but not any of which normal users will
encounter at any time. That is, not a dependency target !
Very few people need to go poking at the sequencer source, and
they should manage to take a bit more complicated approach, than
'make bzImage' or 'make modules' to achieve that.
(i.e.: cd drivers/scsi/aic7xxx;make XYZ)
/Matti Aarnio -- presenting own opinnions, obviously
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