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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Custom kernel not compiling
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Next time, just post the file straight to the message.  It's just as big
as if you attached it, but I don't have to go through the rigamorole of
decoding it.  Thanks :)

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Ricardo Williams wrote:

> I have written from scratch a custom kernel config file using the LINT
> config file as a guide. I basically only wanted to enable support for the
> above configuration. The config file passes the "/usr/sbin/config ?????"
> stage but "make depend" fails with "Syntax error: "(" unexpected.

Fix your MAXMEM option.  In-line math doesn't cut it, use bc if you need a
calculator :)

options 	MAXMEM=32768

> What is wrong and what can I do to fix it ? I though that since I had no
> eisa or scsi devices, I would not enable support for any of them, and also
> since there is no native support for my Accton 1650 network card, I
> disabled all other network card probes and only enabled the "device   ed0"
> probing for a NE1/2000 network cards.

You may want to remove the SCSIDEBUG option, or your log may get filled
with SCSI messages.  Also PROBE_VERBOSE, this is equivalent to the -v
boot-time option.

Hope this helps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major