[Coco] Really not understanding how to use DW

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 September 2013 16:49:11 Tormod Volden did opine:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> > This is the best build I've seen in 3 years.
> 
> Ah, this is almost touching, Bill :p
> 
> > In running the "Build Nitros9 using mingw", "mercurial", "toolshed",
> > "lwtools", "nitros9" instructions on the wiki all go smoothly now
> > thanks to you and Tormod (sometimes it pays off to complain).
> 
> Seriously, it is your participation that pays off!
> 
> > I can do a fresh pull & make with only a couple of minor errors that
> > are insignificant to Nitros9. All the "Error 216" and "Error 218" as
> > well as the "Out of resources" errors are gone.
> 
> They are not all gone. BTW, those of you looking at these errors will
> love the latest change I did in ToolShed just now:
> os9copy,os9attr: Print out human-readable error messages
> 
> > There's an error in the DAlpha build for "padrom"
> 
> * os9 padrom 4096 kernel
> * padrom: file size insufficient for pad size
> 
> I guess the DAlpha kernel has grown beyond 4096 bytes.
> 
> > PacOS9 errors and doesn't build (did it ever?)
> 
> It complains about a missing "main90.r" file. Is that something that
> should be generated from main90.a? I guess rma and rlink were used for
> this in the old days but they have been deprecated. Please somebody
> port it to LWTOOLS.
> 
> > and there's an error when it's making the nos9 disks in copying CCbKrn
> > which (I think) was an attempt at a new kernel but abandoned as the
> > old kernel is built but the CCbKrn copy cmd wasn't removed from the
> > makefile in the dsk routines.
> 
> Can somebody confirm this? I would be happy to remove the ccbkrn stuff
> if it is meant to be gone.
> 
> Tormod
>
I wasn't looking for it in this mornings backtrace and didn't see it.  
However, I think I would leave that to the contributer who put it there.  
There could well be a valid reason its sitting there stewing.

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