Well,
I just downloaded a fresh AROS tree from the cvs (today):

And it compiled straight away.
At least today cvs snapshot should work with you as it worked with me.

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I'm running a Debian/unstable, my gawk gives 3.1.4 and gcc 3.3.4.

Could you please ask on #aros IRC channel?

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There is no bin in the source tarball.

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I did. Several times. Removing the source directory completely, unpacking, configure make. Everytime it's something else.

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gawk is 3.1.3, gcc 3.4.2. This is a Gentoo system, everything is installed in it's latest version.

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But I built my "AROS-Caliente" CDROM on AROS sources grabbed with "cvs checkout AROS ;cvs checkout necessary" only, and all is compiling. Past month have some building macros changed, issuing some problems when compiling from fresh, but all should be in order now.

Anyway, be sure build-system/core-system devs read our comments and take them into account.

There appear to be long-standing issues in building a clean CVS checkout that never get fixed. I've reported problems with clean checkouts several times and it's always ignored.

At first, delete AROS/bin/.
Retry.
Then, be sure you have the correct version for gawk.
Some others tools need the last versions too.

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OK. I restarted (with nightly build sources from today), but now it fails later, with this error:

Generating ref for lockcamd.c...
Reference generation failed: /gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/tools/cxref -raw -CPP '/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/tools/i386-linux-aros-gcc -E -C -dD -D__CXREF__ -I/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/tools//genmod_inc -I/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/gen/workbench/libs/camd/dummyinc -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -DAROS_BUILD_TYPE=AROS_BUILD_TYPE_PERSONAL -O2 -I/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/AROS/Development/include -I/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/gen/workbench/libs/camd -idirafter /gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/workbench/libs/camd -include /gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/gen/workbench/libs/camd/camd_deflibdefs.h' lockcamd.c >/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/gen/workbench/libs/camd/lockcamd.ref
In file included from lockcamd.c:11:
camd_intern.h:28:1: warning: "AROS_PTRALIGN" redefined
In file included from /gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/AROS/Development/include/aros/cpu.h:39,
from /gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/AROS/Development/include/aros/system.h:13,
from /gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/AROS/Development/include/proto/exec.h:9,
from lockcamd.c:9:
/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/AROS/Development/include/aros/machine.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
lockcamd.c:23:1: pasting "(" and ""d0"" does not give a valid preprocessing token
lockcamd.c:23:1: pasting "(" and ""a6"" does not give a valid preprocessing token
lockcamd.c:17: cxref: syntax error, unexpected IDENTIFIER, expecting ';' or ','

The previous 10, current and next 10 symbols are:
-10 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : UninitCamd
-9 | 40 : '(' : (
-8 | 302 : STRUCT : struct
-7 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : CamdBase
-6 | 42 : '*' : *
-5 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : CamdBase
-4 | 41 : ')' : )
-3 | 59 : ';' : ;
-2 | 259 : TYPE_NAME : APTR
-1 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : __saveds
0 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : LockCAMD
1 | 40 : '(' : (
2 | 259 : TYPE_NAME : ULONG
3 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : locktype
4 | 317 : ASM : asm
5 | 40 : '(' : (
6 | 261 : STRING_LITERAL : "d0"
7 | 41 : ')' : )
8 | 44 : ',' : ,
9 | 302 : STRUCT : struct
10 | 258 : IDENTIFIER : CamdBase

cxref: The preprocessor exited abnormally on 'lockcamd.c'
make[1]: *** [/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source/bin/linux-i386/gen/workbench/libs/camd/lockcamd.ref] Error 1
make --no-print-directory TOP=/gentoo/build/AROS-20041027-source CURDIR=workbench/libs/camd TARGET=workbench-libs-camd-includes --file=mmakefile workbench-libs-camd-includes failed: 512
Error: Error while running make in workbench/libs/camd: No such file or directory
make: *** [all] Error 10

No, it isn't normal at all.

Try to restart? Or with another CVS archive?

Often, problems like that happens when there are some commands not up to date.

Today I started compiling AROS on Linux from the 20041021 sources. It's running a cxref process now for nearly 4 hours ("Generating ref for prepareexecbase.c...") on a Pentium M Laptop. Is this normal or should I stop and restart?

Bye...

Dirk