Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:57:24 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel) Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build a working SMP machine? Message-ID: <sehgi5ruuz.fsf@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: root@deadline.snafu.de's message of Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:00:23 %2B0100 (CET) References: <m0w87fz-0004AdC@deadline.snafu.de>
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root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel) writes: > > Hi! > --- > > I'm currently wondering, how one should get to a working SMP system. > After I had tried out the SMP kernel with a recent -current, which did not > work because of the recent Lite2 merges, I today tried to checkout > a source tree dated Mar. 01 97 hoping to get a working and nearly > stable system out of that sources again which would then also be runnable > with an SMP kernel... Nope... ''make world'' fails on that tree because > of changes to /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/*.h dated 10 - 11. Feb 97 which in turn > cause at least fsck to not compile at all. The modifications to fsck which > will make it compile again are dated Mar. 12/13 and later... So I tried > to do a make world on that tree with the /usr/src/sys tree replaced by > the SMP sys tree. But even that fails, cause some include files insist > to include "smp_opt.h" which if ever seems to exist only in /sys/compile/*/... > > So can anyone tell me which date to check out of the CVS tree to get > the rest working with an SMP kernel and at least compiling, and what > is the correct order for doing a make world on that sources. > Should I first do a make world on the sources and THEN replaces sys > with sys-SMP, or should I replace sys with sys-SMP before compiling > anything? Well a swift look at the logs for a representative file (vfs_syscalls.c) shows that the lite2 earthquake started early morning on Monday 10th Feb 1997. The world would never be the same. I suggest setting your time machine to 9 Feb 1997 to return to the 'Golden Days'. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 These are not the opinions of Microsoft. FAX: +44 171 734 6426
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