PTXDist hasn't been supported by M5 people for quite some time. I recommend you start with the gentoo stage 3 image.
Ali On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Veydan Wu wrote: > Hi, I want to run m5 in full system mode target ALPHA. > > I follow the instruction on the page "Using linux-dist to Create Disk > Images and Kernels for M5", and I have reached the final step > "Compiling benchmarks for the image and creating the image with > linux-dist ". > > But the script seems mistake , it fetch a package ipkg-util-1.7.tar.gz > automatically from the internet, but failed. The ftp site does not > work, so I downloaded it manually and placed it in the directory the > compile tool designates. Then the compilation continued, but after it > extract the package, the default path of some patch is different from > the package i download, so the compilation failed again. > > Does anyone encounter similar problem before? How can I deal with > this? Thank you! > > > > ps: The error message is as followed: > > ------------------------------- > target: host-ipkg-utils.extract > ------------------------------- > > extract: archive=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/ > my_workspace/src/ipkg-utils-1.7.tar.gz > extract: dest=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/my_workspace/ > build-host > patchin: packet=ipkg-utils-1.7 > patchin: dir=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/my_workspace/ > build-host/ipkg-utils-1.7 > patchin: name=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/lib/ > ptxdist-0.10.3/patches/ipkg-utils-1.7/generic/ipkg-utils-1.7-tarX.diff > ... > /bin/sh: patch: not found > exit: 1: Illegal number: -1 > make: *** [/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/my_workspace/ > state/host-ipkg-utils.extract] > Error 2 > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
