From: Laur Ivan (Laur.Ivan at domain corvil.com)
Date: Fri 27 Sep 2002 - 16:36:02 IST
Hello,
If memory helps, this is to compile some assembly language files.
Probably the old "as" could generate binaries, thus the -c (compile?)
option. Probably is safe to remove the "-c" altogether.
...interesting someone is compiling linux 1.0 these days :)
Cheers,
L
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at domain linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at domain linux.ie] On Behalf Of
Kevin
> O' Riordan
> Sent: 27 September 2002 15:45
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] ancient as
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to compile linux 1.0 at the moment, and (after some minor
> modifications to the source & makefiles) have gotten the 'make dep' to
> work. However, when I tried 'make zImage', I hit the following lines
> of a Makefile:
>
> .s.o:
> $(AS) -c -o $*.o $<
>
>
> The problem being that my version of 'as' doesn't have a '-c' option
:(
>
> Can anyone guess what's the intention of the above Makefile lines ?
>
> I'm rtfm'ing at the moment, but dammit I hate gnu info !
>
> tia
> -kev
>
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