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
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