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19 years ago

Cant configure kernel

I cant seem to configure the kernel. I get the following error (shown below) . i recently installed a linux distribution for freescale's 8347 processor that was using cygwin as well. I think that might have something to do with it. i deleted the install but still am having no luck. I also reinstalled microtronix's linux for NIOS.

Thanks,

Sid

bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: tr: command not found

/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: uname: command not fou

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/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: grep: command not foun

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/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: cat: command not found

/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: grep: command not foun

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/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: sed: command not found

/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: uname: command not fou

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Microtronix Linux Extensions

Version 1.4, Built June 20, 2005

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/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: cygpath: command not f

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/cygdrive/c/Altera/quartus50/bin/cygwin/bin/bash: line 1: cygpath: command not f

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4 Replies

Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
19 years ago
looks like you need to check your environment variables.
Also check the configure.bat file, if the paths are right.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
19 years ago
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originally posted by nacide@Oct 23 2006, 10:44 AM
looks like you need to check your environment variables.
also check the configure.bat file, if the paths are right.
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do you know what kind of Env variable i should be looking for?
I went through the list and nothing really stood out as being Altera/nios/uclinux/mictronix/bash related. I'm running this on an XP machine.

Thanks,
Sid
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
19 years ago
In the long run I recommend using a Linux machine to compile kernel and applications.
The advantage is:
1) you can use initramfs and zImage
2) you dont have to deal with broken Cygwin installations
3) The Eclipse is difficult to update, once a new Quartus version comes out.
Right now hippo is working on the new uClinux-dist with 2.6.17 kernel.
I only tried out the buildroot approach with the Microtronix port, this works well but the kernel is 2.6.11 which is sometimes a problem when adding drivers.

Be careful with the installation of Cygwin. No Cygwin other than Altera's is allowed on the system.
Make sure that the path variable points to the right locations. Check the path variable in Environment variables.
Furthermore check the variables: QESS_ROOTDIR, QUARTUS_ROOTDIR, SOPC_BUILDER_PATH_50 and SOPC_KIT_NIOS2, they all have to point to the 5.0 version.
Fix the path in configure.bat (for example: c:\altera\kits\nios2_50\bin\eclipse\workspace\<projectname>\configure.bat)

hope this might help
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
19 years ago
Hi,

Be sure that the application you create has a clean path i.e :

you should not have white spaces in directory name, because you are running Nios II under windows, and windows OS alow white spaces in directory name but Cygwin not !
in particular if you create the project on Desktop you will have : "C:\Documents and Settings\...\..." in the path and Cygwin interprets the white space as end of command.

I hope this will help you