John Sonnenschein wrote: > Anyone had problems with building polaris recently? I've got the new > tools & i just checked out from SVN about 10 minutes ago, but the > build fails in a couple places that I can correct ( duplication of a > function probably because of errant c&p, and an incorrectly defined > struct ), but even after fixing them dies with screen after screen of > linker errors ( offset <foo> is non-aligned) > This is why several weeks ago I had queried whether anyone had even tried. Since then one (other than yourself) person outside of Sun has tried pulling from the external svn repository and has reported a few problems. Tom has been addressing them as they are reported. He expects to have everything fixed up and working by the end of this week (or that is what he told me :-). With respect to the linker errors.... well, just guessing that you don't have the GCC tool chain fixes were the compiler DOES generate misaligned relocations. I fixed that in our copy, but why I queried how to get this back into the "official" code release I got nowhere. I believe that all the problems are related to dwarf section relocations, so if you remove the -gdwarf2 from Makefile.master (I think that is where the usage exists) those problem will go away. If you wish to keep those I can try and help you fix the GCC tools. > Also, any chance when the kernel build I can boot it off a floppy or > such yet, I've had no luck getting this rs/6000 booting off the > network > > Does the RS/6000 box you have support OpenFirmware (I would think it would, but I have no idea whether or not it works properly, given that I've never used a RS/6000 box)?
Right now the port has only been tested with using an NFS root, though I don't know of any reason why a UFS root would not work. I'm encouraged you are trying though. Please keep us (all of us) apprising of your results.
