Repost of old mail now that I've made my ISP register their mail
relays (which took three months for them to understand!).
I know this is ancient but being in the archives may help someone.
It was a kernel problem.
I made a new kernel from sources of about 8 hours ago and the problem
has
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Cracauer wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien wrote:
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
Three issues:
- floating point math doesn't seem to work properly:
I don't have a -current machine I want to delete all ports from,
"-O -pipe" is all I use for kernel and world builds.
The kernel config file from my work box is attached.
I have never built gcc from ports.
I always use "config -r" when building kernels.
I dont use modules as I have everything I need in my kernel
including COMPAT_LINUX.
And as I said
David,
I emailed my details on what I have done on two machines that are
exhibiting this problem. Because these machines are different in
their hardware and have not expressed the problem in the past, I
dont think its a hardware issue.
Before the new binutils both machines did not have this
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
Three issues:
- floating point math doesn't seem to work properly:
- backward compatibility:
- stability:
Are others seeing these issues?
These issues make me think that the new binutils is not yet ready
for -STABLE.
It
Has anyone tried the specific instructions I gave to reproduce
the problem ?
i.e.:
- make world
- making and installing a new kernel
- mergemaster
- reboot
- deletion of ALL installed ports
- recompile of every essential port (inc XFree 3.3.6)
Then: Build xaos from ports
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:24:24AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
Has anyone tried the specific instructions I gave to reproduce
the problem ?
These instructions do things at too high a level.
i.e.:
- make world
- making and installing a new kernel
- mergemaster
- reboot
All
Three issues:
- floating point math doesn't seem to work properly:
To reproduce:
Build xaos from ports (/usr/ports/graphics/xaos)
Run xaos and press 'a'
- enjoy the show but I dont think its what the
author intended.
I have
