jhensley@isis.cs.du.edu (John 'Hawg' Hensley) (05/10/91)
First off, thanks to everyone who responded to my first barrage of questions. BUT... I tried chmem'ing make to just about every conceivable size, with no luck at all. It still gives an error 32512 on everything I try. If I could just find out what that means, it'd probably be easy to fix, but I can't find any references to it. If anyone has a clue, I'd greatly appreciate it. If nothing else, I suppose I could try reinstalling everything, but that seems a little extreme, as I haven't changed much from the stock 1.5, and don't see how it would help. Here's what I have: 1.5 out of the box, running on a 640K XT with a 32M hard disk, with the Clam shell added. My root image is on the HD, leaving 484K free at boot time (I haven't checked to see how much Clam takes up, but it still doesn't work just using sh.). John
evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May10.035457.12570@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jhensley@isis.cs.du.edu (John 'Hawg' Hensley) writes: >BUT... I tried chmem'ing make to just about every conceivable size, with >no luck at all. It still gives an error 32512 on everything I try. If >I could just find out what that means, it'd probably be easy to fix, but >I can't find any references to it. If anyone has a clue, I'd greatly >appreciate it. If nothing else, I suppose I could try reinstalling >everything, but that seems a little extreme, as I haven't changed much >from the stock 1.5, and don't see how it would help. 32512 is 0x7F00. It says that some child process of make is returning the code 0x7F. (This is an (irrelevant) bug in make. It does not really understand U*x exit codes (sys/wait.h stuff). Make should report the error code 0x7F too.) 0x7F is 127. 127 is what system() returns when it cannot execl /bin/sh. Make calls system() a lot. It looks like /bin/sh is missing or is chmem'ed too big to execute. I would expect a lot of other things to break if /bin/sh is missing or nonstandard. -- Bruce Evans evans@syd.dit.csiro.au
mvharding@cup.portal.com (Michael V Harding) (05/11/91)
I have seen the same problem with make on MacMinix: that mysterious error 35xxx. It only happens sometimes, the system has been behaving lately. The first time I saw the error is when I tried to make a shell file to MAKE a new system by running make on FS, MM, KERNEL, etc.