On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Stuart Shelton wrote: > > I realise that IRIX isn't (yet) a supported platform, but I thought I'd > give it a try... > > I'm falling at the first hurdle, when bootstrapping openpkg tries to build > rpm: > > /usr/freeware/bin/gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../popt > -DOPENPKG -DOPENPKG_IRIX64 -I/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/zlib-1.2.2 > -I/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/bzip2-1.0.3 -I/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/beecrypt-4.1.2 > -DOPENPKG -DOPENPKG_IRIX64 -I/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/zlib-1.2.2 > -I/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/bzip2-1.0.3 -I/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/beecrypt-4.1.2 -O2 > -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -MT stubs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/stubs.Tpo -c > stubs.c -o stubs.o > In file included from stubs.c:10: > ../misc/basename.c:10: error: conflicting types for basename' > make[2]: *** [stubs.lo] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/var/tmp/openpkg-2.4.0/rpm-4.2.1' > make: *** [all] Error 2
See http://www.mail-archive.com/openpkg-users@openpkg.org/msg02352.html > (I see that IRIX was last mentioned on this list back in 2002 - also in > realtion to RPM problems, natch - and the blocker at that time was RPM > 4.0.4 not building) > > ... however, there *are* RPM builds available for IRIX. So, the questions > I have at this stage are: > > * Is there currently any mechanism to give the bootstrap script an > alternative CC value? CC=cc in the environment doesn't seem to have any > effect. Try "sh openpkg...sh --help", there are --use_XXX= variables. > * Can I convince the bootstrap system to use utilities (such as RPM) which > are already present on the system (albeit non-openpkg derived). SGI's RPM > is 3.0.3 - is this too old for general use with openpkg? No. > * openpkg tries to build in /tmp - which, on IRIX systems, can be very > small (only 10s of Mbs). Is there any way to get openpkg to build in > /usr/tmp, or some other location? You can influence this by setting the environment variable TMPDIR. > Are any developers actively working on an IRIX port? Do any developers > actually have SGI machines available to them? In any case, if anyone's > willing to point me in the right direction then I'm happy to help out. As far as i can see there are currently at lease 3 persons interested in this. Doug Summers, Doug Henry and me. I hoped that IRIX could be ready for the next release (BASE+CORE). When you are willing to help, this would be great. (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
