> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:58:51PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> So with all that being said in 2008, here I go again with this hardware : >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo >> processor : 0 >> cpu : G2_LE >> clock : 396.000000MHz > > Ooh, I don't think I could afford the necessary amount of coffee > to build on that! If patience is a virtue, you will be exceedingly > virtuous.
Have a search in this msg for "yes really" : http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2007-08/msg00318.html So, been there, done that, get me some wings and a harp :-) >> revision : 1.4 (pvr 8082 2014) >> bogomips : 65.53 >> timebase : 33000000 >> platform : Efika >> machine : EFIKA5K2 CHRP PowerPC System >> revision : 2B3 >> vendor : bplan >> > > If you haven't already done so, please check if the debian kernel, My understanding is that everything I need is in linux-2.6.24.3 and that was why I stopped building a whole new tool chain on my own and then thought "geez, let's just do this all from scratch" which brought me back here to LFS. > and their version of yaboot, need any non-mainline patches to boot on > Efika. I'm not using yaboot nor grub. I did a port of GRUB2 to ppc a while back for the PowerPC project at OpenSolaris and that worked pretty well. The presence of good firmware means that I don't need a boot loader like yaboot. I just place the boot command in the firmware "boot" environment variable and then the machine boots fine. > I can remember various threads on the powerpc-dev list which > suggested certain things needed to be done differently on it - > maybe it's all now been merged upstream. yep. That is the rumour but I have yet to see proof. >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2008-03/msg01254.html >> > The number of failures isn't extreme, but it is slightly high. No surprise. My builds of autoconf failed a few test later because of faulty fortran. I was in touch with the autoconf people and we are looking into a few things. > Your report doesn't show which tests failed. Could be all manner of > things, including old tools or even missing locales. Well, I was doing a two pass process : [ pass zero ] doesn't count for much. Install Debian and see what I get from that. It has a pile of basic things in the build_essentials debian package. Like gcc 4.1.2 20061115 and a starting point. [ pass one ] build my own toolchain with whatever I have on hand. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/build$ ls first_pass second_pass [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/build$ ls first_pass/ autoconf-2.61 flex-2.5.35 mpfr-2.3.1 automake-1.10.1 gcc mpfr-2.3.1-enable_shared binutils gmp-4.2.2 readline-5.2 bison-2.3 gmp-4.2.2-enable_shared sed-4.1.5 coreutils-6.10 gzip-1.3.12 smake-1.2 dejagnu libiconv-1.12 star-1.5 env.sh m4-1.4.10 tar-1.19 expect-5.43 make-3.81 tcl8.4.16 all of that stuff builds and most of it passes all of their testsuites neatly. I have never seen GCC pass its own testsuite so therefore I am not surprised when I see failures in its tests. The best I can hope for is that C and C++ compiles as expected. [pass two] use the tools from pass one to compile everything again and install them into /usr/local this time. Again I simply hope for the best when it comes testsuites. After all of that is done ... I think its time to try to build a new Linux kernel. > I haven't used 4.2.3 so far, and my last ppc build was using > recent clfs (with e.g. upstream patches in binutils). I only > enable c,c++. For gcc-4.2.2 I had the following failures: > > FAIL: gcc.dg/tree-ssa/loop-19.c scan-tree-dump-times MEM.(base: &|symbol: > )a, 2 > FAIL: gcc.dg/tree-ssa/loop-19.c scan-tree-dump-times MEM.(base: &|symbol: > )c, 2 > FAIL: g++.dg/other/unused1.C scan-assembler > (string|ascii?)z?\t"class2("|\\\\000) Well, like I was saying. I have never seen GCC pass its own testsuites and so I'm not surprised when it doesn't. In fact, if it ever does pass all of its testsuite for C and C++ then I think I'll probably faint. > Enjoy the build. It will be something that I do on that one little embedded thingy and I expect it will happen over time. Lots of time. > The jh branch covers ppc (except for bootloaders) > if you don't want to use clfs. What do you mean by "jh" ? Dennis -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
