Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-22 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my new Mac mini G4 ... If that's not an Intel based Mac, then your definition of new is, well, contrary to all accepted usage. s/new/newly acquired/

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:09:52PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:02, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects.

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-22 Thread Johan Hendriks
Michael Sierchio schreef: I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1, and IMHO, the 9.0 installer SUX! It blow chunks. It's a POS. It's crap. It is a joke. I hope I made myself clear. ;-) - M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

kernel generic options

2012-01-22 Thread ajtiM
Hi! My system: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Because pkg_libchk show that Opera 11.60 misses libz.so.5 I want to install /misc/compat8x as one user suggested me but generic kernel optins are: # $FreeBSD:

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
While on the subject of Clang, is this compiler only for C, C++ and Objective-C? What about Ada and Fortran? Does one need GCC for that? Dragonlace for Ada? I believe some of the ports require GCC. Many of these ports are developed primarily for Linux and subsequently ported to FreeBSD ports

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/01/2012 11:50, Thomas Mueller wrote: While on the subject of Clang, is this compiler only for C, C++ and Objective-C? Correct. Clang is the LLVM front-end for that family of languages. What about Ada and Fortran? Does one need GCC for that? Dragonlace for Ada? There are other LLVM

Re: kernel generic options

2012-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:36:29 -0600, ajtiM wrote: O.K. I will rebuild a kernel but my question is why is not options for FreeBSD 8 as default, please? All the kernel functions present in v8 are also present in v9, so there is no need to a compatibility option inside the kernel. The compat-8x

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: A couple years ago, it looked like a race between PCC and TenDRA, but Clang seemed to just come out of nowhere and steal all the attention. All three of them had a lot to recommend them, but then

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:37:48AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: There has been some talk of it being the GCC replacement for OpenBSD and maybe even NetBSD, though I seem to recall Theo de Raadt doesn't consider replacing GCC a very urgent requirement right now (which might be part of the reason

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/22/12 22:37, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: A couple years ago, it looked like a race between PCC and TenDRA, but Clang seemed to just come out of nowhere and steal all the attention. All three of them had

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only choices were borland and gcc. The former for win32 crap and the latter for, well, everything else.

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only choices were borland and gcc. The former for win32 crap and the

* Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 22, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only choices were borland

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:13:49 +1000 Message-id: 4f1c27ad.9070...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Da Rock wrote: On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: Da

Trouble upgrading packages after 9.0 upgrade

2012-01-22 Thread David Jackson
I upgraded to 9.0. But when i use pkg_upgrade -a, i get this: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-release/INDEX: File unavailable. Why? Also portupgrade -PP -a also fails spectacurly. Why. It seems like it is getting more and more difficult to use FreeBSD. To upgrade to the

Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone - Fixed.

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 15, 2012 10:09:06 AM -0500, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is alleged to have said: I was trying out portmaster to see if it worked better than my current tool of choice for keeping my ports up to date (portmanager) and when I went back to portmanager I can no longer get it to

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Eric Masson
kpn...@pobox.com writes: Hi, Lattice C - targeted MS-DOS, AmigaOS, probably others. Had a 32-bit int on the Amiga, where Manx had a 16-bit int. When Commodore ported BSD sockets to the Amiga they had to change all the ints to longs because of this. Was renamed SAS/C towards the end of the

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread mikel king
On Jan 22, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Eric Masson wrote: kpn...@pobox.com writes: Hi, Lattice C - targeted MS-DOS, AmigaOS, probably others. Had a 32-bit int on the Amiga, where Manx had a 16-bit int. When Commodore ported BSD sockets to the Amiga they had to change all the ints to longs because

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:55:18PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 22:37, Chad Perrin wrote: PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused except in some of the dustier corners of Unix user communities before being actively developed again as more and more

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 01:13:49AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Robert Bonomi on Sunday, 22 January 2012: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only choices were borland and gcc. The former for win32

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:37:48AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused PCC is only a C compiler, and there is some C++ code (e.g. groff) in the base system. The FreeBSD port is marked as i386 and amd64 only, even though other

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 09:33:02PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: PCC is only a C compiler, and there is some C++ code (e.g. groff) in the base system. The FreeBSD port is marked as i386 and amd64 only, even though other architectures seem to be there in the PCC source. I had somehow forgotten

php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hello list, I'm attempting to install php5 from my ports tree. I've attempted the latest version ( 5.3.9 located in /usr/ports/lang/php5) and the 'latest stable' (5.2.17 located in /usr/ports/lang/php52). The result is pretty much the same: [root@LBSD2:/usr/ports/lang/php5] #make install ===

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/23/12 07:26, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 09:33:02PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: PCC is only a C compiler, and there is some C++ code (e.g. groff) in the base system. The FreeBSD port is marked as i386 and amd64 only, even though other architectures seem to be there in the

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread Tim Kellers
On 1/22/12 5:35 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I'm attempting to install php5 from my ports tree. I've attempted the latest version ( 5.3.9 located in /usr/ports/lang/php5) and the 'latest stable' (5.2.17 located in /usr/ports/lang/php52). The result is pretty much the same:

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread RW
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:01:29 -0500 Tim Kellers wrote: On 1/22/12 5:35 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I'm attempting to install php5 from my ports tree. I've attempted the latest version ( 5.3.9 located in /usr/ports/lang/php5) and the 'latest stable' (5.2.17 located in

Re: buildworld

2012-01-22 Thread Marco Steinbach
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Samuel Wallace wrote: uname -a FreeBSD sampc.att.com 8.2-STABLE #4: Sun Jan 15 13:21:40 EST 2012 s...@sampc.att.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 [buildworld: don't know how to make iterator.cc] There's a thread about this on stable@. The net outcome seems to be,

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hello again, Thanks for your input. Before attempting to install php on this machine I updated my ports tree with csvsup. But following the steps in this article helped me to get past this point. http://icesquare.com/wordpress/freebsdproblem-to-update-php-port/ Which was basically: #sudo rm

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread Da Rock
On 01/23/12 10:50, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello again, Thanks for your input. Before attempting to install php on this machine I updated my ports tree with csvsup. But following the steps in this article helped me to get past this point.

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread Tim Kellers
On 1/22/12 7:50 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello again, Thanks for your input. Before attempting to install php on this machine I updated my ports tree with csvsup. But following the steps in this article helped me to get past this point.

Re: kgzip(8) regression in RELENG_9 GENERIC

2012-01-22 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:41 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:02 PM, Devin Teske wrote: Taking a GENERIC 9.0-RELEASE kernel and running kgzip(8) on it produces an unusable kernel which causes immediate BTX halt in loader(8). ... 4. Say: kgzip kernel Curious, it doesn't even

Re: non-responsive FreeBSD-9.0 after dump command

2012-01-22 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:42:10 -0700, Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca a écrit : # mount /dev/ada0p2 on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) /dev/ad1as1d on /backup (ufs, local, soft-updates) # # cd /backup # dump -0aLf 20120118.dump / There is no