Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:11:09 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: bjn@visi.com Cc: jb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha Message-ID: <199806222311.JAA29214@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199806222242.RAA29897@bambi.visi.com> from "Brent J. Nordquist" at "Jun 22, 98 05:42:32 pm"
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Brent J. Nordquist wrote: > Hi John and FreeBSD/Alpha porters, > > I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and try to help this effort along. I have > an AlphaStation 255 running NetBSD 1.3.2 now, and it's NFS-mounting > /usr/src from a FreeBSD -current box (cvsup and checkout as of this > morning). There is now a quicker way to get up and running if you are prepared to wallop the NetBSD installation or if you have a second disk. This way you get the FreeBSD tools where the 'make world' build expects them to be and you can just build normally. The build leaves out some programs and you continue to use those from NetBSD. I can provide you with tarballs if you want to proceed with this. [ FWIW, there has been a bit of misinformation on some other mailing lists recently. Doug Rabson has committed some files to the FreeBSD source tree that are part of his port of the FreeBSD kernel to the alpha. That is work in progess. There is currently _no_ public distribution of a FreeBSD/Alpha kernel. I (and a few others) use a hacked NetBSD kernel for the time being, but the sources for this will _not_ be committed to the FreeBSD tree. Anyone wanting to work on FreeBSD/Alpha is welcome to use this kernel until Doug is ready. ] > > The build of libc needs a temporary patch for vfprintf.c that I don't > > want to commit. > > ...and I wanted to make sure this wasn't related. As a side note, where > can I get that patch (and other uncommitted things that occur to you)? No patch is required now. The FreeBSD sources have been updated to handle the varargs properly. I haven't seen the build error you quote, but I haven't done a cross build for a while. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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