Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 13:10:07 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha userland work Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808021305560.14391-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <2215.902058361@gjp.erols.com>
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Has anyone tried to compile the alpha `userland' bits lately? I tried this > morning on an Alphastation 600 at work (running NetBSD-current) and failed > miserably. I eventually got it through to compiling the libraries, but ran > into a problem in lib/libc/gen/nlist.c, which assumes Elf32, which doesn't > quite work on the Alpha. I'm assuming that all that needs to be done is > replace Elf32 with Elf64, but are there any other gotchas out there? Has > anyone tried this of late? Judging by the problems I ran into, I don't think > so :) I have a load of uncommitted userland changes, including one to nlist.c, which I need to re-read here and possibly get external reviews as appropriate. A hack to get nlist.c to compile is to s/32/64/ but the right thing is to check ELF_TARG_CLASS to see what width is being compiled (this is what I do). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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