Re: Building 2.6 cvs head on db1550

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Christian Hecimovic wrote:

> I'm having problems building 2.6 head from the linux-mips cvs. There were a 
> number of build errors with the /arch/mips/config/db1550-defconfig file. 
> Eventually, it built with a number of fixes. Here's the diff:
> 
> Index: arch/mips/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/linux/arch/mips/Kconfig,v
> retrieving revision 1.96
> diff -r1.96 Kconfig
> 583a584
> >     select DMA_NONCOHERENT

 Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches (diff -up), please!

> Index: arch/mips/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/linux/arch/mips/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.176
> diff -r1.176 Makefile
> 19c19
> < 32bit-tool-prefix   = mipsel-linux-
> ---
> > 32bit-tool-prefix   = mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu-

 This is specific to your setup -- most people use the shorter form for 
whatever reason (less typing, less disk space, etc.).  You may invoke 
`make "CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu-" <whatever>' for an 
override.

 The rest is system-specific; I can't comment.

  Maciej