Error 2 is file not found, at least in C. Don't know what it's looking for.
Sent from my Motorola XT1527 On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 3:30 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2018 13:13:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > >> I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN > > >> and USB against an RPi3B+, results were satisfactory. There's a > > >> modicum of muttering that the 3B+ has broken something relating to > > >> the LAN or USB. > > > > > > I'm convinced its the internal usb2 hub that all i/o except the > > > radio and spi has to go thru. It has a rather annoying tendency to > > > throw away its own mouse and keyboard events. Thats not at all a > > > pleasant occurrance when the tossed event is a keyup, and it left > > > 1500 lbs of machinery moving with no stop except crashing into > > > something. OTOH, once code has been coaxed into a file, that file > > > can run that same machinery to do micron accurate work. The machine > > > control is thru spi, writing 32 bit packets at 41 megabaud, and > > > reading the responses 32 bits at a pop at 25 megabaud. > > > > The focus of people's ire ATM appears to be the RPi3B+, where the > > design has changed the chip that implements LAN and USB hub > > functionality. Over the last few days I've put a lot of time into this > > as the culmination of a ridiculous amount of routing/firewalling > > testing, and while I'd quite like to be able to accumulate more > > results what I can say so far is that while a TinkerBoard can receive > > a data stream over 1GBit/sec Ethernet and farm it out to at least > > three USB-connected 100MBit adapters before performance starts > > degrading, an RPi3B+ can only handle one and when a second is added > > performance is distributed unevenly... don't even dream of adding a > > third. > > > > The RPi range is good for what it was initially designed for, but that > > LAN/USB chip appears to be its weakness. I've not sought out a > > datasheet or worked my way through the kernel yet, but it looks as > > though there's some sort of prioritisation in there that can get out > > of kilter. > > > > Gene, is it one of these > > https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-media-board-computer that > > you're currently running to good effect? > > > Yes, the 4Gb version. But while it can build the latest (yesterdays > release) rt kernel in about 3 hours, I haven't figured out how to > install it yet. 220 megs uncompressed. But I'm trying to make pdfdocs, > and don't have enough of sphinx installed to get sphinx-build, according > to the make file error. Doing an install sphinx-* says everthing that > globs to is installed and current. Sigh. Finally got enough python and > perl installed that its making pdfdocs now, but that one hell of a bug > finder, missing xrefs by the megabyte. > > And something is wrong with the locale, even a "dpkg-reconfigure locale" > cannot create the locale vars needed. Getting a 9 line complaint from > perl for every file processed. I was able to fix the paper size to > letter from a default of A4 before I started making the docs in pdf. > When it gets done, maybe I'll learn something? It must be generating > quite a few gigabytes of pdf's. > > And I have laundry to tend to, back later, its been munching on media-tex > for about 15 minutes now, with 3 screens worth of included files. > > And just bailed out with a weird message: > build succeeded, 41 warnings. > make PDFLATEX=xelatex LATEXOPTS="-interaction=batchmode" -C > Documentation/output/./latex || exit; > xelatex -interaction=batchmode 'userspace-api.tex' > This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/Debian) > (preloaded format=xelatex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > Makefile:66: recipe for target 'userspace-api.pdf' failed > make[2]: *** [userspace-api.pdf] Error 1 > Documentation/Makefile:85: recipe for target 'pdfdocs' failed > make[1]: *** [pdfdocs] Error 2 > Makefile:1523: recipe for target 'pdfdocs' failed > make: *** [pdfdocs] Error 2 > > Damn! Why the heck can't it say why? > > Sigh. > > > Remainder noted with interest. > > > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > >
