Has anyone been able to do kernel development on OSX? I'm trying to
build a kernel with debugging enabled. The Android documentation makes
Darwin/OSX sound like it is fully supported, but I'm running into a
lot of problems that make me suspect either I'm doing this the hard
way or the rest of the Android kernel hackers are using Linux perhaps.

When I tried to run 'make menuconfig" I received the following error:

     $ make menuconfig
      *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
      *** required header files.
      *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
      ***
      *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
      ***
     make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
     make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

This article http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/28/460 pointed out that OSX's
echo does not jive well with the kernel script:

     myandroid/kernel/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog

After commenting out the error, I was able to get menuconfig to run:

     #exit 1

However, when I try to build the kernel I got another error about my
version of sed:

     sed: 4: "/^\#define/ { s/[^_]*__ ...": bad flag in substitute
command: '}'

This I was able to avert by using Fink to install the GNU version of
sed.

Now I'm stuck with the following build errors:

In file included from include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h:6,
                 from include/linux/compiler.h:40,
                 from include/asm/atomic_32.h:4,
                 from include/asm/atomic.h:2,
                 from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:36:1: warning: "__weak" redefined
<built-in>:1:1: warning: this is the location of the previous
definition
  GEN     include/asm-x86/asm-offsets.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
sed: 4: "/^\#define/ { s/[^_]*__ ...": bad flag in substitute command:
'}'
  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:4:17: error: elf.h: No such file or
directory
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c: In function ‘main’:
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:9: error: ‘EI_NIDENT’ undeclared (first use
in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:9: error: for each function it appears in.)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:19: error: ‘ELFMAG’ undeclared (first use
in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:19: error: ‘SELFMAG’ undeclared (first use
in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:23: error: ‘EI_CLASS’ undeclared (first use
in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:24: error: ‘ELFCLASS32’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:27: error: ‘ELFCLASS64’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:33: error: ‘EI_DATA’ undeclared (first use
in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:34: error: ‘ELFDATA2LSB’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:37: error: ‘ELFDATA2MSB’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c:9: warning: unused variable ‘ei’
make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
make: *** [scripts] Error 2


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