Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 18:18:50 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Build failure of gmp-6.2.0 on Mac Mini G4 Message-ID: <b5c89910-a1af-7cfb-b23c-67a3e9c976e7@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <83543ad1-48c9-cf6c-b24b-f47c249a1634@comcast.net> References: <18d93226-7cc6-4cef-1667-f05dea8770a3@comcast.net> <20200526194532.07d637bb@titan.knownspace> <83543ad1-48c9-cf6c-b24b-f47c249a1634@comcast.net>
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On 5/26/20 6:00 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On 5/26/20 5:45 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 May 2020 15:27:46 -0700
>> Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> (This is a copy of email sent to the port maintainer. Re-sending to
>>> this list in case someone familiar with powerpc has already
>>> encountered and resolved this issue.)
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get FreeBSD running on an old Mac Mini and have hit a
>>> snag with this port, which is a dependency of many others.
>>>
>>> The configure step fails with the following output (I don't have mail
>>> running on the mini yet and am typing this on another machine,
>>> so please disregard any typos. blank lines = line breaks in output):
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> ===> gmp-6.2.0 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/makeinfo - found
>>>
>>> ===> Configuring for gmp-6.2.0
>>>
>>> checking build system type... invalid configuration
>>> 'powerpc7447-unknown-freebsd12.1': machine 'powerpc7447-unknown' not
>>> recognized
>>>
>>> configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub
>>> powerpc7447-unknown-freebsd12.1 failed
>>>
>>> etc.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> I tried
>>> # make configure CONFIGURE_ARGS=--build=powerpc7447
>>> and
>>> # make configure CONFIGURE_TARGET=powerpc7447
>>>
>>> Neither worked. Same failure.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how I can resolve this issue?
>>
>> Where do you get powerpc7447? The arch is 'powerpc', and you shouldn't
>> need to set anything for the port. If you want to customize for your
>> specific CPU, add the following to /etc/make.conf:
>>
>> CPUTYPE=7450
>>
>
> I got it from the error message above. ;-)
>
> This is a vanilla install using the ISO CD image downloaded yesterday
> and installed, followed by a portsnap fetch and portsnap extract.
> I haven't made any edits to /etc/make.conf or changed any other
> settings. Expected it to work "out of the box" but for some reason it
> doesn't.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that the 7447 came as a result of the kernel
> reading the PVR at some point? Or is this due to the gmp port's own
> attempt to get the processor version in config.guess? How can I confirm
> which of 7447 or 7450 is correct?
sysctl reports hw.model as "Motorola PowerPC 7447A"
So I tried adding CPUTYPE=7447 to /etc/make.conf
cd /usr/ports/math/gmp
make distclean
make install clean
Same failure as above ("invalid configuration")
-- charlie
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