Rahul Jain wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:57:52AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > I was misquoting someone else when I said it had endian problems. > > My bad. I should have said that it has powerpc problems, but don't > > take that as gospel, because I'm just parroting someone else. > > It used to have ppc problems. the CVS dev tree hasn't had ppc-specific > complaints for at least a week.
At least a week, huh? > > As > > for sparc, they say that you can't build a 2.4[.2] kernel on sparc32 > > right now, so that leaves me out. > > The dev tree is now 2.4.5: > Linux photino 2.4.5-xfs #14 Wed May 30 17:01:36 EDT 2001 i586 unknown Where? The tree I cvs'd from SGI is 2.4.2. According to reports on this list 2.4.5 doesn't compile. But I'm starting to get close to getting the 2.4.2-xfs to build on my sparc32. > > I even tried SGI's xfs kernel > > source (on my sparc32 system), it demands egcs-2.91.66 to build, as > > if. I think maybe I'll try it on the ol' powermac .... > > I used to demand that. I've been using the gcc from unstable for over a month > without a single issue. It even supposedly builds and runs (with some > corruption issues ;) with redhat's latest gcc 2.96. I hacked that redhadiot BS out of the Makefile and I'm much better now. Gcc 2.95.2 works just fine so far. a
