Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:13:25 +0000 From: "Mark Blackman" <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building sparc64 bits. Message-ID: <20020319091301.2058A579A7@mailhost1.dircon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> of "Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:58:01 PST." <20020318185801.C18154@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> > There's a couple of general points I'm not clear on with > > respect to building code on the sparc64 port. > > > > A) Does it do self-hosted buildworlds yet, and if not, as I suspect, > > how close are they? > > No. Depends on when I finish off what is needed. > Not being fully self-hosting is no excuse for either (1) not trying > FreeBSD on the platform; or (2) actually using the platform for > development. I couldn't agree more, having posted a dmesg.boot to the list last week for a Netra T1/105. I was getting confused between what I saw on the mailing list and what I was able to achieve on my own machine. For instance, the perl-5.7.1 build will not even finish the Configure step due to some hang in the step related to dynamic loader functions. I'm trying to calibrate my expectations, so that I can start testing/patching at a reasonable level. > > B) Is the current recommended practice to do all building on some > > handy i386 platform with cross-platform compilation capability > > and NFS/tftp/ftp the bits over to the sparc64 machine as required? > > No. We have a hosted (runs on Sparc64, generates binaries for Sparc64) > toolchain, just not a native one that can be used in `make world'. This part is where I'm in trouble. I've downloaded the new hosted compiler tarball http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sparc64/hosted-gcc_20020314.tar.bz2 but its missing a complementary 'as' assembler. Which 'as' do I use? The one in native-uberbaum that came from the whole http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/distrib-20020310.tar.bz2 tarball? (which is the distrib I'm running on) Or one that I've built myself from some branch of the -CURRENT source tree? Does http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/distrib-20020310.tar.bz2 include the hosted toolchain you posted as http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sparc64/native-uberbaum_20020224.tar.bz2? enquiring minds want to know.. I see there is now a 20020317 distrib and src under ~jake/sparc64, so I may have a play with those. Cheers, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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