thanks,
svn commit  41896

regards


2013/7/16 Jan Rovins <[email protected]>

> I sent the patch too soon, I had one thing yet to be tested.
>
> The man install is still broken, it took a few hours for my test build to
> get to that point.
>
> I believe the previous version had the install of the manuals commented
> out, so I did that again to get a working build.
>
> Attached is the whole corrected diff file. and the individual fixed file.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
> On 7/16/2013 11:26 AM, Jan Rovins wrote:
>
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up.
>>
>> Here (attached) are patches to get perl to cross build.
>>
>> The perl cross build (on Mips) has been broken for years, back in 2011, I
>> was just rolling back to an earlier version to get it to work. I put some
>> time into it, and now have the latest version cross building.
>>
>> The install process for perl now calls Porting/pod_lib.pl which makes
>> use of the cpan/md5 modules.
>>
>> Since the cross build uses a native miniperl, and not the real perl, the
>> md5 related calls were failing. I first tried to get the MD5 modules built
>> into miniperl, but could not get that to work, so I back-ported the older
>> install method from an earlier perl version that did not have the MD5
>> dependencies.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/13/2013 6:28 AM, René Rebe wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> just a heads up: the last months we (at ExactCODE) were way too busy
>>> with projects not related to T2. So unfortunately from our side we put less
>>> time in using and polishing T2 as we did before with certain embedded
>>> projects.
>>>
>>> Of course that may change every other quarter as we have projects coming
>>> in and such, …
>>>
>>> Patches welcome! Guess I should update T2 on my G5 for the cross build
>>> test of it, … ;-)
>>>
>>> Rene
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2013, at 18:27 , Jan Rovins wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am going through a T2 cross build for Mips64 (octeon processor) on a
>>>> 32-bit ubuntu 11.10 (Oneric) build host. The last time that I tried the
>>>> mips64 build was 2011, and it needs a lot of updating.
>>>>
>>>> I will be reporting my progress as I go, and sending patches as they
>>>> are discovered.
>>>>
>>>> The first thing that I ran into was that glibc stage 0 would not build .
>>>> it may be something specific to my build host, or to the mips target
>>>> selection. First, I was getting configure errors where the test for hard or
>>>> soft float was failing. I had soft float set in my T2 config file, so I
>>>> modified configure to default to soft float, if it could not determine the
>>>> test, just to get through the configure stage. (looking back on this, since
>>>> it's stage 0, soft float does not matter, since it's going to build for
>>>> x86, not mips).
>>>>
>>>> This allowed me to get to the build stage, but during the compile I was
>>>> getting errors that __WORDSIZE was not set. this was down in the mips
>>>> specific directories. In looking at the .h files that set this, there is an
>>>> attempt to set __WODSIZE to MIPS_SZPTR. and my native gcc on the ubuntu
>>>> machine has no definition for MIPS_SZPTR.
>>>>
>>>> For a stage 0 build, I am puzzled why it is going into the MIPS
>>>> specific code, I thought that it should be a straight x86 build at this
>>>> point. After wasting most of the day on this and not really getting
>>>> anywhere, I decided to roll back glibc from 1.17 to the previous 2.13. That
>>>> version built OK, with some very minor tweaks. I would like to get to the
>>>> bottom of why 2.17 will not build, but for now I will stick with 2.13, an d
>>>> continue.
>>>>
>>>> I am currently working on the stage 1 perl build, which is broken.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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