Hello,
Well today I finished a sparc64 build based on the jh branch. Has anyone
else done a native build on sparc hardware adapted from recent LFS?
I'm hesitating adding in the necessary changes to the branch. When it
comes down to it, the changes aren't that bad, but I just wanted to
sound it off someone else first.
* GCC need some compiler flags set for sparc64 - some packages will
fail otherwise. -mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc works for my
processor. So, for chapter 5 and 6, set an environment variable of
CC="gcc f-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc". Most packages pick that up
from the environment with the configure stage. Some few need it passed
to make, like 'make CC="$CC"' Programs that require adding a 'CC=' to
the make command are (IIRC, my notes are at work):
procps
bzip2
sysklogd
sysvinit
util-linux
udev
* util-linux needs a patch in chapter 5 & 6, CLFS calls it a syscall
patch. Trying to work it into a sed, but the changes CLFS made are a
little extensive.
CLFS also created a patch to add a missing header for swapon.c,
needed in chapter 6: util-linux-2.12r-missing_header-1.patch. But this
patch could be traded for a sed:
sed -i '/stat.h/a\#include <fcntl.h>' mount/swapon.c
* kbd requires two seds for sparc architectures:
sed -i '/kbdrate/s/period/rate/' src/kbdrate.c
sed -i '/kbio.h/d' src/{kbdrate,setleds}.c
Anyway, that's it. All things considered, it's not that bad. Also,
that's it for the hardware I have (currently) available to test with:
x86, x86_64, sparc{,64}, and ppc.
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JH
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