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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:14:48 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@pluto.plutotech.com, gibbs@pluto.plutotech.com
Subject:   Re: installing bootblocks... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809251110070.845-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <24732.906718048@time.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > It seems to be hanging in boot1 somewhere.  Could you try instrumenting
> > boot1 by inserting a few puts() statements into it.  Be gentle with it -
> 
> Actually, I was sort of wondering how anyone was building the boot
> blocks at all - I can't get them to build on my alpha.
> 
> Perhaps now would be a good time for a status report on just what
> remains to go into the tree before the complete triad of
> kernel/world/boot can be built successfully from /usr/src without
> patches?  I must confess to being a little confused about all this at
> the moment.

They built last time I tried but I think the Makefiles are still have some
bogus pathnames in them though.  I couldn't build them if I used 'make
obj' first but I think I can fix that (add a -I${.OBJDIR} to CFLAGS
probably).

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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