Anyone able to build Joe's mol-0.9.71_pre6 on ubuntu?

[Bin Zhang]

On 12/29/05, Rob Frohne <frohro at wwc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Bin,
>
> I'm rather new to the Linux world.  What other problems is building a
> kernel from kernel.org likely to cause?

No others problem.
But if you don't know how yaboot works, maybe you will not be able to
booting your new kernel !!!!!!


> I have been pretty pleased with
> the way ubuntu works out of the box.
>
> Why is building a new kernel likely to help me with this issue?

I don't know. I use debian unstable.
I think ubuntu's kernel patch is the problem.

> Isn't
> that kind of like reinstalling in Windows, something you do when you
> don't know what is messed up, and can't seem to fix it except by
> starting over?

No.
ubuntu/debian kernel = vanilla kernel + modifications

I don't know these modifications, so if I can't build mol using
ubuntu/debian kernel, I try vanilla kernel.

regards,
Bin

>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> Bin Zhang wrote:
>
> >On 12/28/05, Rob Frohne <frohro at wwc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>After the advice to use the latest distribution for Tiger and more
> >>responsiveness, I am trying to build it under Breezy 5.10 (kernel
> >>2.6.12-9-powerpc), and it  seems to configure ok, but when  it starts
> >>compiling I get  a bunch of errors on  checklist.c, like for example:
> >>
> >>('KEY_LEFT' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >>
> >>The wiki on the ubuntu web site tells how to get an old version going.
> >>Maybe it would be easier to patch that to the present, but I thought I'd
> >>just try Joe's gentoo version first.  Any advice?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Try to build your kernel from kernel.org's source.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Bin
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Rob
> >>
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