> > Thomas Stewart writes: > > > > hi > > I recently upgraded my Linux System from Redhat 5.2 to 6.0, In the rush to > > install it and find out what it was like I did not back up my dev86. > > > > So I thought not to worry, I will just download it again and compile it > > again. So I downloaded the whole lot, dev86src, elks, elkscmd and mwin. I > > untared them in to /usr/src and tried to compile dev86. > > > > This is where things got bad, It just would not fininsh compiling dev86. It > > stopped while it was compiling ld/objdump86.c, giving some error around > > about line 17 (I think, can't remember the exact line). > > > > Its been so long since I compiled dev86 and I can't remember if it happened > > the last time. Can anyone help? > > > > Can't really help much unless you can include a copy of the error output in > you mail. I remember Greg reporting a problem caused by a recent version > of ar no longer being able to cope with minix format .o files, and > I believe there may be some glibc issues with it, but can't remember what. > > Mail us the error output, and I'll see what can work out from that. > > Al > Ah. I have a problem building Dev86 where ar is crashing, and was going to wait until I had more info (e.g. ar seems to be working until the build gets to a certain point, then refuses to work with the archive any more). How can I find out more about the problem with ar that Greg reported? Thanks, Phil
