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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