From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 17 15:40:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA28860 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:40:13 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA28854 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:40:10 -0800 Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA03975; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:39:58 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199501172339.PAA03975@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: adaptec 294x question To: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:39:58 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501172150.QAA02372@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> from "Jeff Aitken" at Jan 17, 95 04:50:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2912 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm trying to install 2.0-950112-SNAP on an IBM PC with an Adaptec 2940 > PCI card. I grabbed the boot floppy images from 2.0-950112-SNAP/newer, > but I need to rebuild the kernel. Unfortunately, after doing a 'config > MACHINE', make depend reports something like: > > don't know how to make aic7xxx_seq.h Did you replace the dependancies in i386/conf/files.i386? The section should look like this: aic7xxx optional ahc device-driver \ dependancy "$S/gnu/misc/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c" \ compile-with "${CC} -o $@ $>" \ no-obj no-implicit-rule aic7xxx_seq.h optional ahc device-driver \ dependancy "$S/gnu/misc/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.seq aic7xxx" \ compile-with "./aic7xxx -o $@ $S/gnu/misc/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.seq" \ no-obj no-implicit-rule before-depend i386/scsi/aic7xxx.c optional ahc device-driver \ dependancy "aic7xxx_seq.h" When you use config with these entries, the Makefile will do the right thing to create the header file for you. > > This error isn't fatal to make depend, but it is fatal to make. I > looked at /sys/gnu/misc/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.seq, but that wasn't it (I don't > think). Anyway, someone obviously got this to compile to make the boot > floppy image; is it just thatall the source files (namely aic7xxx_seq.h) > haven't been committed yet? If so, could someone (Mr Gibbs, perhaps, if > you've got the time) mail me the file and where exactly it's supposed to > go? So far as I can tell, it is being included by > /sys/i386/scsi/aic7xxx.c. > > Thanks! > > > P.S. This is as good a place as any to ask: I work for the CS > department here at Virginia Tech and it's been decided that the > department will require incoming students to purchase PC's (running some > flavor of UNIX) instead of workstations. I've been actively promoting > FreeBSD, which is why I'm trying to install it on this IBM machine > (which is a loaner/demo model to see if it would work). We expect to > get another PC from DEC, and perhaps other vendors. If I can > demonstrate that it (a) works well, and (b) is installed easily, I may > be able to convince my boss to recommend FreeBSD over, say, Linux, > Solaris x86, NextStep, etc... What are some recommended configurations > that are "name" brands? The reason I say that is that the department > *must* have some sort of service contract that they can count on. In > the past, ponly people like IBM, DEC, and so on have been able to > provide that kind of support. > > Thanks for the help; I'll post a summary if I get many informational > replies. > -- > Jeff Aitken > jaitken@vt.edu > > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================