Re: [suse-sparc] awk died during "make menuconfig"

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 12:22:35 PST

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    Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:22:35 -0800
    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>
    Message-ID: <20010205122235.J22890@gimp.org>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] awk died during "make menuconfig"
    

    * Stefan Heyse <schnufff@gmx.de> [010205 03:53]:
    > when i try to compile the new 2.4.1 kernel.
    > and " make menuconfig"
    > it build the lxdialog-files and then :
    >
    > <preparing scripts : funktions ,parsing AWK died with errorcode 137 giving up>
    >
    > in the kernel-menu there are only the options to save or load the
    > configuration available.

    Interesting.

    > awk is only a script language, isnt it ???

    Yes, exactly.

    > all software packages are updates to the version-requirements in
    > changes and i download all the
    > makefiles,menuconfigs,defconfig,config.in from the cvs-directory in it
    > newest version.
    >
    > the machine is a sparcstation lx with suse 7.0. no kernel (2.2.16,
    > 2.2.18, 2.4, 2.4.1) works. in a earlyer posting i heard, that the
    > scripts for sparc are buggy.

    What do you mean no kernel works? The LX is a sun4m, whichc should work
    fine for all of those kernels. The scripts that are buggy for the sparc
    are the SuSE kernel scripts, but those are easily worked around.

    > where can i find a sparc-optimized kernelsourcetree or what else can i
    > do???

    Look at http://vger.samba.org/ for details... if you have problems when
    that tree, then there is a true issue.



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