Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:22:18 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha userland work Message-ID: <199808021222.WAA20195@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <2215.902058361@gjp.erols.com> from Gary Palmer at "Aug 2, 98 07:46:01 am"
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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 :) There are things lingering in local trees. I have a fix for this and so does Doug. I haven't committed mine because it is not as clean as splitting nlist.c like NetBSD does. -- 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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