On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:31:13PM -0700, Matt Carter wrote: > Hello, > > First, please direct to another list if this is the wrong place to post > this. > I figured I would start here...
This is the right place ;-) > > I have recently loaded Debian linux (hamm) onto my SS2. The install went > well. I used the 4mm/local hard disk/ftp method (if any one cares :) > > I am a long time Unix user, long time developer, but a first time Linux > user. > So, naturally, the first thing I am trying to do with my new > environment, > is to build something. I decided to download the emacs20_20.2-6 stuff > from the Debian ftp site and try and build it. I get to the temacs -dump > phase, > and then receive a floating point exception error. This error is > occurring in the libm.so shared library. The exp function is broken in the kernel. I compiled emacs19 by explicitly specifying e in the relevant file instead of calculating it. Remember sparclinux is still thorny territory. > Ok, now that I have bored you, here is my question... am I getting the > source for Sparc Linux from the correct place ? the emacs code I > downloaded was, as I said, from the debiam/hamm ftp site. I installed > the source using the dpkg-source module. Usually you compile: $ dpkg-source -x foo.dsc $ cd foo-version $ dpkg-buildpackage -B -m'your email' > After the emacs episode, I then tried downloading the glibc-2.0.7s > module and > compiling it. I figured I should try and find out why I was getting the > FPE during my emacs build. Well, I can't build that either. It seems > there > is a header inclusion problem, etc., but I won't go into that now. WRT the header problem check the mailing list archives on http://www.debian.org. You have to correct a glibc-header file. Additionally we are using the glibc2.1 branch of glibc for historic reasons. You should look for glibc-pre2.1-version in libs. Perhaps first try a package which is less of a challenge ;-) If you are interested in contributing look around in the developer corner on http://www.debian.org Welcome aboard, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
