Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:46:19 -0500 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Benjamin Miller <dbmiller@dbmiller.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building powerpc (32-bit) packages on amd64 Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOu2GKB8OoTUgAsiTk%2B3JyzaP3WJ5yd6HdQC2_oNmhayuA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWntOshPhSDwZ=TLcEKY3u2-6iH9Y-tR69AhsZra_RqxXrUaQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <a53b5540-5cff-a0d0-7a2f-fa143f6c6f4f@dbmiller.org> <fa96de38-7e7c-2dc7-00aa-29a9d9adf39e@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <CA%2BWntOsJKaCotx3YWAm=Ba46_f2wdCDm_-5mU8Yd1S5Of11rmw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOshPhSDwZ=TLcEKY3u2-6iH9Y-tR69AhsZra_RqxXrUaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:44 PM Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> wrote: > Edit: Search for the problem and fix it. > My apologies > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:40 PM Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You will need to build on the G3/4/5 PowerPC32/64||POWER machine itself. >> Since it is your computer, and you are probably not one of the >> committers, I would suggest that you edit the Makefiles to the proper >> architecture by adding what you need. >> In the source itself, you need to edit the configuration file so that >> FreeBSD is allowed. This is the way I was able to build a public package >> repository for FreeBSD on the PowerPC32/64||POWER series. >> You need to start editing the files from the source after you download >> them.or the problem and fix it. >> I had one of these: >> https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/specs/powermac_g3_400_bl.html >> and simultaneously built firefox, a window manager, and an editor on it >> with it having less than one gigabyte of memory. >> >> The POWER RISC architecture is different, I'll explain it to you. >> Since it has a base of LOAD_STORE in the registers, it will dedicate as >> many if not all resources to the load intensive process. >> The machine looked like it was dead. >> It wasn't. >> One day later it was up, and the ports were built. >> >> So there is no excuse. >> >> Go home and do your homework. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:49 PM Gustavo Romero < >> gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> Thanks for sharing your recipe and results. >>> >>> In fact I realized last week that indeed ppc32 binaries don't exist in >>> the >>> mirrors and I could not find any replacement for them. >>> >>> I've tried to kick a build of gcc9 on ppc32 G4 and hit a couple of >>> issues which >>> I was able to work around. I have not tried other packages yet. On of the >>> issues looks related specific with that kind of build environment, i.e >>> real >>> G4 HW, so cross-compiling looks a nice alternative. >>> >>> So yeah, please keep us posted on your progress building the ppc32 >>> binaries on >>> amd64 :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Gustavo >>> >>> On 11/09/2019 03:25 AM, Daniel Benjamin Miller wrote: >>> > While it's not normally supported, I have managed to build powerpc >>> packages on amd64, for a 32-bit target. I recently obtained a PowerBook G4 >>> and was interested in running FreeBSD on it. So I installed the base >>> system, but found that there were no binaries out there. Somebody had an >>> unofficial server in ~2015 but it looks like there's nothing on the web >>> now. Compiling ports on a G4 is torturous, so I decided to give it a whirl >>> on my amd64 computer. The issue was that I couldn't run powerpc (32-bit) >>> FreeBSD in QEMU, and it seemed that cross-compiling using poudriere was not >>> supported with a powerpc target from an amd64 host. I've been able to >>> generate some packages using the following method: >>> > >>> > 1. Run a FreeBSD-CURRENT (powerpc64) virtual machine under Linux, >>> using the command sudo qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries-2.12-sxxm -smp 2 >>> -mem-path /dev/hugepages -drive file=bsd.img -m 12G -boot c as my boot >>> command. (Before this, you'll need to have a CD attached, of course, in >>> order to install it.) >>> > >>> > 2. Compile pkg, then pkg install poudriere. >>> > >>> > 3. Add a simple poudriere.conf (I just went with the example). >>> > >>> > 4. Create poudriere's data folder. >>> > >>> > 5. poudriere ports -c >>> > >>> > 6. poudriere jail -c -j ppc32 -v 12.1-RELEASE -a powerpc >>> > >>> > 7. Create a file and then run poudriere bulk -f <myfile> -j ppc32 >>> > >>> > And it all seems to work. Once my job is done, I will post my >>> unofficial binaries in a publicly accessible repository. I don't know if >>> the project maintainers would be potentially interested in using this >>> method to compile powerpc (32-bit) binaries on modern hardware (being that >>> the userbase for this architecture is, in all likelihood, fairly small). >>> Nevertheless, these packages should make my PowerBook G4 somewhat more >>> useful as a FreeBSD system. >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >>> > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >>> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> Apologies for the top posting. My mistake.
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