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From: pa1285@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (David L. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.5.0 Successful kernel compile
Keywords: kernel 1.5.0
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Date: 1 Jan 90 18:38:07 GMT
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I have been successful in compiling the 1.5.0 kernel on my machine.
I have an 8 Mz Erso DTK motherboard with a WD RLL controller.  I
have 640K of memory.  I had to do the following to successfully
compile:

*  I did not have the crc program and had to extract that from the
   distribution in order to check the crc's.

*  I extracted the patches to lorder and tsort to order the library.
   I then used the posting regarding the non source entries in the
   library.

*  I had to reorder some include files in fs/misc.c and
   kernel/system.c in order to keep cpp from aborting.

*  I had to chmem both cpp to pass kernel/system.c and cem to
   pass tools/fsck.c

*  I ignored the incompatible pointers warnings.

I also had to modify NR_SECTORS in floppy.c and set AUTO_BIOS in the
config.h file to work with my hard disk.

I am also having problems with the rs232 driver, but I will continue
to work with this.

All in all, I am impressed with the improvements I have seen so far
to 1.5.0 and am looking forward to installing the commands updates.

David Brown
dbrown@ucsd.edu