[coyotos-dev] Building coyotos (missing inttypes.h?)

[Tom Bachmann]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> Well, the *best* solution would be to switch to fedora -- or it would
> have been until yesterday, when Petr broke the build by a bad update to
> flex (sigh).
> 

I understand that groups that work on such spezialized stuff usually 
internally only use one distribution and clearly reccomend this one, but 
I think building on most modern posix systems should be possible.

> I'm trying to track this down now, but I'm a but surprised by the tree
> structure. My concern is that there is magic in the makefiles to look
> for .../coyotos/src/... in your path, so the presence of
> coyotos/src/coyotos/src/ may be causing problems.
> 

Yes, that sounds realistic, but it isn't obviosly to me how this could 
be related to a mess up of a different path. Anyway, I'm sure you have a 
deeper understanding of this.

> I need to find a workaround to the flex problem first, and I'll get back
> to this then.
> 

thanks.

> I appreciate the effort to send me the 'env' output, but those aren't
> the ones that will reveal the problem. The build-related settings are
> what I need.
> 

Actually, to me it seemed quite obviously that this cannot be related, 
but it seemed what you asked for.

> Perhaps you passed those as arguments to make?
> 

right.

> Oh. I now see the instructions that ness sent out. Let me try those.
> 

but I see you alredy noticed it.
btw, you did notice I just changed my screen name, did you?

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