Hello, dear sparc developers, I have reinstalled my 2 sparcs dedicated to debian-sparc development (one ELC & one Sparc5) from scratch, using the boot-floppies I made a long time ago. In fact, it is very very buggy ;-(( I did such reinstallation to continue to develop using a clean Debian setup (my previous configurations were based on RedHat, Debian, vger and so ;-) ).
First of all, I was not able to install kernel image & modules from the menus due to a bug in the /dev/loop* device. I've got I/O error when I tried to mount an image through this device. I think it's related to NFS. In fact, I tried to mount an image located on a NFS mounted filesystem with no success while the same thing on a local disk works well :-(( I've got the same behavior on my PC box under Linux 2.0.27, so I think it's a kernel related problem. In effect, we will have to put these images unpacked on the NFS installation server to be able to run the kernel installation step. I can post a fix if you want (it's based on boot-floppies-1.2.16 or so). Well, my 2 sparc boxes are now running Debian. One part is coming from old packages I uploaded months ago (always available at lix.polytechnique.fr under /pub/Linux/debian/sparc/bo), and the other come from current hamm distribution. Both are running the same configuration. However, I cannot compile on my Sparc5 box while the SparcELC works fine :-(( gcc gave me the following error: $ gcc -c -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_FILE_H=1 -DSTACK_DIRECTION=0 -O2 hello.c gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 10 Moreover, the same packages compiled both on my SparcELC and my cross-compiler under Solaris work fine under my Sparc5. Anyone have experienced this problem? I don't know whether it's related to kernel, libc or gcc. I'm running gcc 2.7.2.3, libc6 970928-3 (almost the same as the publicly available -2 with kernel_termios.h added and a fix to libc_g), latest binutils 2.8.1.0.15 linked with libc6 and stock kernel 2.0.29 from disks-sparc 970328. Bye. PS: I'm willing to fix the socket problem in libc6 before to upload a new snapshot. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
