[Coco] Really not understanding how to use DW

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 16:05:50 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> This is the best build I've seen in 3 years.

Ah, this is almost touching, Bill :p

> In running the "Build Nitros9 using mingw", "mercurial", "toolshed", "lwtools", "nitros9" instructions on the wiki all go smoothly now thanks to you and Tormod (sometimes it pays off to complain).

Seriously, it is your participation that pays off!

> I can do a fresh pull & make with only a couple of minor errors that are insignificant to Nitros9. All the "Error 216" and "Error 218" as well as the "Out of resources" errors are gone.

They are not all gone. BTW, those of you looking at these errors will
love the latest change I did in ToolShed just now:
os9copy,os9attr: Print out human-readable error messages

> There's an error in the DAlpha build for "padrom"

* os9 padrom 4096 kernel
* padrom: file size insufficient for pad size

I guess the DAlpha kernel has grown beyond 4096 bytes.

> PacOS9 errors and doesn't build (did it ever?)

It complains about a missing "main90.r" file. Is that something that
should be generated from main90.a? I guess rma and rlink were used for
this in the old days but they have been deprecated. Please somebody
port it to LWTOOLS.

> and there's an error when it's making the nos9 disks in copying CCbKrn which (I think) was an attempt at a new kernel but abandoned as the old kernel is built but the CCbKrn copy cmd wasn't removed from the makefile in the dsk routines.

Can somebody confirm this? I would be happy to remove the ccbkrn stuff
if it is meant to be gone.

Tormod



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