For anyone else looking at FPC on an Arietta G25 I have found the cause of my problems!
It turns out that although there is a swap partition in the standard SD image, it was not mounted in fstab. Once enabled, the standard build processes complete without issue. I had hoped this might also explain the other issue with subversion but that problem still persists: root@arietta:/media/data/freepascal/2.7.1# svn up U compiler/globals.pas U compiler/ogelf.pas U compiler/i8086/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/i386/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/jvm/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/x86_64/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/ogbase.pas U compiler/powerpc64/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/utils/ppuutils/ppudump.pp U compiler/pmodules.pas U compiler/scanner.pas U compiler/arm/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/powerpc/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/alpha/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/nadd.pas U compiler/sparc/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/vis/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/ia64/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/options.pas U compiler/m68k/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/ninl.pas U compiler/aarch64/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/mips/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/mips/cpuelf.pas U compiler/generic/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/avr/cpuinfo.pas U compiler/ogcoff.pas U packages/ncurses/src/ncurses.pp U packages/fcl-db/examples/dbftool.lpr U packages/fcl-base/src/whtml.pp U packages/rtl-console/src/go32v2/mouse.pp U rtl/netbsd/pmutext.inc U rtl/netbsd/ptypes.inc U rtl/netbsd/pthread.inc U rtl/win/wininc/struct.inc U rtl/linux/i386/syscall.inc U rtl/unix/cthreads.pp U rtl/unix/tthread.inc svn: Can't open file 'packages/cocoaint/src/webkit/.svn/tmp/entries': Read-only file system root@arietta:/media/data/freepascal/2.7.1# On Wednesday 12 Nov 2014 10:19:49 Paul Michell wrote: > I have been trying to build FPC on an Arietta G25: > > http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta[1] > > I have downloaded the stock arm 2.6.4 from here: > > ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/pascal/fpc/dist/2.6.4/arm-linux/fpc-2.6.4.arm-linux.tar > > And the current source snapshot from here: > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/trunk/source/fpc.zip > > Incidentally, I have tried running subversion to fetch the current sources, > but subversion misbehaves on this platform > and randomly crashes leaving the file system in an un-bootable state! So to > work around this I have fallen back on > using the snapshots for now. > > From the 2.6.4 files I have extracted the compiler and system files into a > seed folder and attempted to build FPC with: > > make clean all FPC=/media/data/freepascal/2.6.4-seed/ppcarm > > I have also tried cycling just the compiler with: > > make cycle FPC=/media/data/freepascal/2.6.4-seed/ppcarm > > However I start the build process, it always fails with an error 217, but not > always in the same place? I have tried extending > the swap partition and also adding NO_UNIT_PROCESS OPT=-dNO_THREADING in case > there is a resource issue. > > The firsts iteration of the make cycle completes as I have a functional ppc1 > in the compiler folder, so I assume that means I have all > of the right dependencies in place. My last attempt fails at this point: > > /bin/rm -f ppcarm > /bin/mkdir -p arm/units/arm-linux > /media/data/freepascal/fpc/compiler/ppc1 -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fuarm -Fusystems > -Fu/media/data/freepascal/fpc/rtl/units/arm-linux -Fiarm -FE. > -FUarm/units/arm-linux -dRELEASE -dNO_THREADING -darm -dGDB -dBROWSERLOG > -Sew pp.pas > make[5]: *** [ppcarm] Error 217 > make[5]: Leaving directory `/media/data/freepascal/fpc/compiler' > make[4]: *** [next] Error 2 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/media/data/freepascal/fpc/compiler' > make[3]: *** [ppc2] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/media/data/freepascal/fpc/compiler' > make[2]: *** [cycle] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/data/freepascal/fpc/compiler' > make[1]: *** [compiler_cycle] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/data/freepascal/fpc' > make: *** [build-stamp.arm-linux] Error 2 > > What does error 217 mean and does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can > move passed this? > > Thanks, > > Paul Michell > > > -------- > [1] http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
