On 8-Oct-07, at 12:20 PM, Brian D. Horn wrote: > 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.
Hmm... doesn't appear removing -gdwarf2 from usr/src/Makefile.master worked >> 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. TBH, I'm not even sure what sort of disk format this machine wants. It's openfirmware, so I assume it's some sort of standard format, but I couldn't dredge up any docu on it -- Encrypted Communication Preferred PGP Key: 0x437AF1A1 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20071008/3ed7ed24/attachment.bin>
