(Fwd) Re: DOSFS bug fixes, IDE drivers and sample released

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Mit, 2003-03-19 um 09.00 schrieb Thomas Doerfler:
> > I have downloaded all the patches and performed the build, however, the sasmple is not being built.
> > I also configured with --enable-tests, but still the sample was not built.
> > 
> > I tried to build it using a makefile, however, I got a compile error unable to include /rtems/ata.h
> > 
> > I looked in the install directories, however, ata.h is not there (it is in the source directory)
> > 
> > Do I have to do something special in the configure to build this?
> 
> Yes, since the rtems source tree has been modified (some 
> directories added etc) you will have to "bootstrap" the 
> autoconf/automake files to get them up to date. So you hae to 
> install the proper autoconf/automake versions for rtems-
> 4.6.0pre1 (see the tool versions specified either in the 
> source tree or on the OAR ftp site), and then go to the rtems 
> source tree base directory and type
> 
> ./bootstrap
> 
> Make sure to have some coffee and a good book nearby,
I'd recommend to use this opportunity to read some pages of the
Goat-book (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook)

>  because 
> this procedure take a lot of time.
You only need to rebuild the auto*-files you have modified, in case of
the patch attached to PR 369:

cd c/src/tests/samples
../../../../bootstrap

Or

cd c/src/tests/samples
autoreconf

[Both take a couple of seconds ;)]


Ralf