RE: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile

[Cress, Andrew R]

Try setting CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE=n as a workaround.

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Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile

In article <[e-mail]> you wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>> 
>> Hello;
>> 
>> I downloaded linux-2.4.4. The basic kernel compiles but the aic7xxx
>> SCSI module that I require on some machines, doesn't.

> The aic7xxx assembler requiring libdb1 is a bungle.  Getting the headers
> for that right on various distros is not easy.  Add to that it requires
> YACC, when most people have bison (yes, a shell script is easy to make,
but
> not always an option). 

If make wants to use yacc but you don't have it, it's probably a mistake
in the make(1) configuration - the Makefile uses implicit rules and
distributions not having yacc should not call it in make's implicit rules.

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.