Subject: Re: Compiling from sun-lamp sources
To: None <rhealey@aggregate.com, sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil>
From: Stephen J. Roznowski <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 03/10/1994 19:29:25
> > > Second, a question regarding compiling things like usr.sbin: Where are
> > > the variables MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH supposed to come from? Or, more
> > > directly, what is the correct way to rebuild an individual binary (such
> > > as config) and have make install work? (I'll assume the same applies to
> > > the src/include Makefile).
> >
> > I believe this is an error from using an old make binary. Rebuild and
> > reinstall make first.
> >
> MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE are internal make variables that came
> about during changes in early January I think. The first time you
> make the newer make you have to define MACHINE_ARCH as m68k
> manually, i.e. setenv MACHINE_ARCH m68k. After the newer make is
> installed things should take care of themselves from then on.
>
> flex and rpcgen also have "tricks" to making them the first time.
> flex requires you copy a simple scanner to the main scanner source
> to bootstrap it and rpcgen requires you to make the new rpcgen then
> make the rpc library.
>
> With the 0219 tar files this might not be necessary as the person
> who cut the tar might have already done all this.
>
Yes, I went through all this "hassle".....
-SR
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