Hi all,

I just recently added a DEC Alpha (running Debian) to my home network. I'd like to be get emptool
compiled for it. I didn't have any luck just running make:

    .../emptool> make

    ../../Make.rules:82: *** You have not defined a valid BUILD type.  Stop.

I browsed through the makefiles for a while, but I'm not that much of a Makefile hacker. Anyone else
have this working on an Alpha (or are the original Makefile author) that could give suggestions?

Yeah, I know... JEmplode, but academic curiosity...

Cheers

or are the original Makefile author

Ahem. RTFM. You get that error on x86 too unless you do "make BUILD=car2 ARCH=pc emptool", as explained in README.srcrel. Unless there's something weirder going on.

This is however likely to be the least of your problems . Is your Alpha little-endian? What's sizeof(int)? sizeof(void*)? (Presumably sizeof(long) is 8)

Peter

Ahem. RTFM.

Or, in my case, RTcorrectFM

ARCH=pc

I saw this in the Makefiles (commented out), but I wasn't sure if "pc" was being used as a non-descriptive term for x86, and if the alpha therefore didn't fall into this category...

Is your Alpha little-endian? What's sizeof(int)? sizeof(void*)? (Presumably sizeof(long) is 8)

Yes, 4, 8, and 8.

My reading skills are the pants. Thanks for the kick in the pants.