Building that version of Sun's libm gives me a binary that requires FPU, SSE and SSE2 - so that's not much use.
FTPing the libm from SXDE build 68 into Belenix, then mounting that as /lib/libm.so.2 gave me a working Belenix to play with. Two further slight problems: 1. X would only work if I selected the base X config in the text mode configurator thingy. 2. For some reason the DNS hadn't been configured as part of the DHCP, so I had to manually add my nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf . But presumably these are due to libm failures during boot. I'm currently posting this message from within Firefox on my Athlon XP system. The Sun libm in SXDE build 68 doesn't require SSE or SSE2 - only an FPU. Cheers Andrew. On 7/16/07, Andrew Pattison <apattison at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, that source is 1.5 years old. I'll try building Sun's libm on my > Athlon XP and see if that helps. > > Cheers > > Andrew. > > On 7/16/07, Moinak Ghosh <moinak.ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > > > > Andrew Pattison wrote: > > > Can you possibly explain why you cannot make your normal libm not > > > require SSE2? Sorry if that sounds like a daft question, but I've not > > > seen it explained anywhere. Are you perhaps using a closed source > > libm? > > > > Um, no it is not closed source. I use the Solaris libm sources from > > here: > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/devpro/ > > > > That release of the libm sources appear to have a hard dependency on > > SSE2. It might me interesting to build this source on a machine > > without > > SSE2 capability and check the resulting binary for SSE2 usage. Since > > I do not have a machine without SSE2 I cannot check it. > > > > Regards, > > Moinak. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Andrew. > > > > > > On 7/16/07, *Moinak Ghosh* < moinak.ghosh at sun.com > > > <mailto: moinak.ghosh at sun.com>> wrote: > > > > > > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > > > Andrew Pattison wrote: > > > >> Firstly, thanks for adding a fix for the SSE2 problem for > > Athlon XP > > > >> processors. > > > >> > > > >> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem on my > > > system > > > >> - I still get errors about the CPU not supporting SSE2. I moved > > > >> /lib/libm.so.2.nonsse to /lib/libm.so.2 and this allowed me to > > > get X > > > >> running using "startgui", but Firefox bombed with a I/O error. > > > I then > > > >> thought that I could simply make the libm change using WinImage > > to > > > >> edit the ISO, but it looks like these files are stored in a big > > > >> compressed file ( belenix.zlib) on the ISO. How can I edit this > > > file > > > >> and swap the libm over so the CD boots with the non-SSE version > > in > > > >> place? > > > > > > > > Right now you have a manual workaround: > > > > > > > > * Boot into Command Line mode > > > > * Execute: /usr/sbin/mount -O -F lofs /lib/libm.so.2.nonsse > > > > /lib/libm.so.2 > > > > * Execute: svcadm clear hal > > > > * Now run startgui xfce or startgui kde > > > > > > BTW Firefox will still bomb due to a missing compatibility > > function > > > in the modified > > > BSD libm. You will have to wait for the next release. > > > > > > I am also considering making an updated BSD libm binary > > available > > > with a script > > > to easily rebuild your ISO with the change so that it just > > works. > > > Stay tuned. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Moinak. > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Moinak. > > > > > > > >> > > > >> Thanks > > > >> > > > >> Andrew. > > > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> belenix-discuss mailing list > > > >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > > > >> http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Andrew Pattison > > > apattison at gmail.com < http://gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Pattison > apattison at gmail.com > -- Andrew Pattison apattison at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/attachments/20070716/a15eaf86/attachment.html>
