eyal@cancol.oz (Eyal Lebedinsky) (05/06/90)
Hello everyone, I am attempting to cross compile minix using microsoft C. All commands (as many as I checked) seem to work but I cannot 'build'. I narrowed the field to menu and kernel. I am now conctrating on menu, and it seems very odd. On the surface it looks as if this (menu.c+menu1.s) is a simple interrogation program, but if contains a lot of unused stuff: brk, initvarv(), get_partition() read_partition() and maybe more. It this program halfway through beeing changed, or do I have an odd version (I am on 1.5.9 and CRCs look ok) or is this all some forgotten leftovers from the middle ages? -- Regards Eyal
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (05/07/90)
In article <369@cancol.oz> eyal@cancol.oz (Eyal Lebedinsky) writes: >On the surface it looks as if this (menu.c+menu1.s) is a simple interrogation >program, but if contains a lot of unused stuff: brk, initvarv(), get_partition() >read_partition() and maybe more. It this program halfway through beeing changed, Sort of. It used to do file system checking, make empty file systems and other junk. It is in the process of being reduced. If you want to remove all the unnecessary junk, post a cdiff and I'll probably adopt it eventually if it works. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)