> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:53:27PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> > Dennis Clarke wrote these words on 04/18/08 13:11 CST: >> >> I have taken a run at this twice and am not entirely sure if the >> situation >> >> is acceptable or not. >> > >> > I cannot answer that either. You've received more errors than I >> > have while building in several different environments. >> >> darn :-( >> > My most recent ppc build (clfs, book dated 20080212) with > glibc-2.7 had the following fail (1.4GHz G4): > > math/test-ldouble.out > math/test-ildoubl.out > crypt/sha512c-test.out > elf/check-localplt.out
Some of the above looks familiar here. OKay, I feel better only because someone else with PPC has seen similar errors and the "misery loves company" approach to software engineering is, sometimes, the only comfort we have left. > Generally, once you change arches, different things fail in the > toolchain tests. odd .. but true. C'est la vie. > I don't have any problems with the resulting system (well, finding > a working version of the xorg radeon driver in the 6.7 series was > interesting, and gave decidedly unusual lockups, but > xf86-video-ati-6.8.0 works fine (and everything bar gutenprint seems > ok)). Thankfully this unit is all about being embedded and it needs only a functional serial console and a few other things.[1] > You must be using --enable-kernel=2.6.0 (or, at least, a value less yes > than 2.6.22), otherwise the compile would have failed early on - the > old clfs -branch_update-1 patch fixed that, but broke builds with > values < 2.6.22 in that switch. That is just an example of the > sorts of things which can change on different arches. I think that I need to make the sign of the cross, say three Hail Mary's and then plow forwards. Other options include the sacrifice of a small animal and things are not that dismal. Yet. :-\ Dennis [1] I'll work up a fresh port of GRUB2 to ppc for this at some point. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
