On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:30:56AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > 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?
The PPC users only started complaining a week before that. (Good think, too, since next week I start my job where I'll be playing with Linux 2.4 on an SMP RS/6000. Unfortunately, IBM doesn't have debian as a supported distro...) > > > 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. The linux-2.4-xfs tree. The non-beta one, in other words. > > > 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. That's been gone for a long time. People have been using gcc 2.95 with XFS for longer. I suggest you subscribe to the XFS mailing list. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- |--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-| Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
