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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: configuration problem on a 3/50 - wont configure
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 2 Oct 89 19:07:03 GMT
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>I have a problem configuring a new kernel on a diskless 3/50 served by a
>4/260 (both running 4.0.3).  Basically it wont work!  The manual states
>that the kernel MUST be made on a machine of the same architecture as that
>which it will run on.  Does anyone know why this is so?  I mean, surely
>you can cross compile on the 4/260..

Assuming you have a cross-compiler that works.  I think Sun may offer that
as a product, but it doesn't come standard.

>root@europa/home/europa/sun3/conf# config EUROPA
>Doing a "make depend"
>*** Error code 1
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `makedep'

A general note - the "make depend" procedure in the SunOS Makefiles has an
annoying deficiency here; it doesn't print the errors out if there's an
error in the "make depend".  It doesn't throw them out, however; they
should be in a file "makedeperrs" in the directory in which the "make
depend" was done (i.e., "../EUROPA") in this case.