John Sonnenschein wrote: > > 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 Interesting. Which GCC tool chain are you using. Perhaps they have it broken even worse in the release you have. Can you forward the output for examination? > >>> 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 With PReP it was FAT12 on the floppy. Is an RS/6000 CHRP compliant?
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