I clicked on "Reply" when I probably should have done "Reply All". Below is my reponse.
-- Guy Shaw John Sonnenschein wrote: > heya all. > > Problem here, trying to build psm & uts, fails because it can't find / > opt/onbld/usr/ccs/bin/ld > > problem being I'm not sure what that's actually supposed to be > pointing at. > > rev 97. POLARISgcc, POLARISbinutils, ppc-dev_tools_v3_pt1 and _pt2 , > SUNWonbld-ppc-extra installed. amd64 build host. I noticed that this message was addressed to me personally, in addition to being posted to powerpc-discuss. It would be reasonable to assume that, since I am working on a development machine at Sun, I would have access to an authoritative source for /opt/onbld and I would have the knowledge to help you. Sorry to disappoint you. The creation and maintenance of the tools in /opt/onbld is one of the few means of production that I have allowed myself to leave to others. And, that was great while it lasted. I have enjoyed not having to be responsible for them. You are almost certainly ahead of me when it comes to knowing where the tools came from and how one goes about installing them. There must be many others who are in a better postion to help you. Tom Riddle did most of the work in setting up /opt/onbld on the development machines we have been using. I believe that the customizations to the GNU C compiler needed for Polaris were done by Cyril Plisko. Maybe they can help. Lately, I have had reason to be concerned about how well controlled my own /opt/onbld is. I recently changed 'aw', and found out that the version that was in /opt/onbld/bin/i386 was not built from usr/src/tools in our source tree. There was not enough self-describing information to tell me where it came from. I had to nuke it and work on my own recreation from the usr/src/tools source code. I am sure it would be instructive for me to start with a new computer and follow the recipe for creating everything I need to do Polaris development. But, I won't be taking the time to do that this month. -- Guy Shaw
