From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 2 05:18:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06359 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 05:18:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06351; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 05:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA20195; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:22:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808021222.WAA20195@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: alpha userland work In-Reply-To: <2215.902058361@gjp.erols.com> from Gary Palmer at "Aug 2, 98 07:46:01 am" To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:22:18 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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