Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:31:20 -0400 From: "Thomas Laus" <lausts@acm.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 Message-ID: <469B48F8.28247.E00D79@lausts.acm.org>
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Since RELENG_4 is has lost support, I wanted to install something from the
RELENG_6 tree. I installed the latest .iso (RELENG_6_2) that was on the
mirrors, but the libpam libraries had problems. The library libpam.so.3 was
missing on my system and even root can not login after installation.
I used the following script:
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#!/bin/sh
### makerelease Mike Patterson <mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca>
## from makecd originally by
## Author: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@gshapiro.net>
# Error exit
EX_UNAVAILABLE=69
# Set this!
buildname=RELENG6-TSL-13JULY2007
# chrootdir, where everything gets built to
chrootdir=/usr/buildworld
# FreeBSD release area
rel=/usr/release
# Boot blocks
boot=boot/cdboot
# CD-ROM root
dir=cdrom/disc1
#cvsroot
cvsroot=/home/ncvs
cd /usr/src/release
make release CHROOTDIR=${chrootdir} \
BUILDNAME=${buildname} \
CVSROOT=${cvsroot} \
RELEASETAG=RELENG_6 \
NODOC=YES \
NOPORTS=YES \
ALLLANG=no \
NOPORTREADMES=YES \
TARGET_ARCH=alpha \
TARGET=alpha
# set NOSRC=YES if you don't want the sources either
# Move into the area
cd ${rel} || exit ${EX_UNAVAILABLE}
# Read CD_VERSION from cdrom.inf
if [ ! -f ${dir}/cdrom.inf ]
then
echo "$0: ${dir}/cdrom.inf missing"
exit ${EX_UNAVAILABLE}
fi
read version < ${dir}/cdrom.inf
cd_version=${version##CD_VERSION = }
if [ "${cd_version}" = "" ]
then
echo "$0: cd_version not defined"
exit ${EX_UNAVAILABLE}
fi
# CD Parameters
appid="FreeBSD ${cd_version}"
pubid="Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org>"
# Where to save the backup
iso=/home/lausts/iso/disc1.iso
# Create the ISO file
/usr/local/bin/mkisofs -A "${appid}" -P "${pubid}" -p "${pubid}" \
-no-emul-boot \
-o ${iso} -b ${boot} -R -J ${dir}
echo
echo
echo ISO is in ${iso}
echo
============
I changed the `TARGET_ARCH=alpha & TARGET=alpha' in the script as well as the
location of enough filespace to build the system. The result was an un-
bootable cdrom. Is there a script that the Release Team uses that might be a
little better for me to use? Are the mkisofs switches correct for the Alpha
architecture? Since my AlphaStation is a lot slower than my PC's in the i386
family, I would prefer to update by cross-compiling binaries instead of
building on my Alpha.
Tom
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