From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 9 0: 6:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A5F37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snark.rinet.ru (snark.rinet.ru [195.54.192.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF9F43E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@snark.rinet.ru) Received: from snark.rinet.ru (andrew@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snark.rinet.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6976s5u001037 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:06:54 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from andrew@snark.rinet.ru) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by snark.rinet.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6976sZt001036 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:06:54 +0400 (MSD) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:06:54 +0400 From: andrew@snark.rinet.ru To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Cross-compilation report. Message-ID: <20020709070654.GB926@snark.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Recently I have done some kind of pathologically brain-dead experiment. :) I have checked out pre-KSE FreeBSD HEAD branch to one of my Intel servers and allowed to re-build entire -SNAP-type release for my newly acquired DEC Alpha machine. Host environment: i386 (Pentium III 850 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 2xSCSI160 HDD); Target environment: Alpha AXP EV6 (21264). My congratulations to FreeBSD development team: "make release TARGET=alpha ..." has gone without any manual intervention! Although one thing is broken: floppies generated by this "make" are not bootable. SRM on DS10L complains that media doesn't contain valid boot block. I has downloaded 5.0-DP1/alpha installation floppies and (of course, after renaming base.* to bin.*) after that I was able to install -SNAP built by me -- all is working quite fine. Now I'm planning to build -current entirely on Alpha and, if Alpha-generated floppies will be bootable, we should consider that some kind of 64-bit cleanness and/or byteorder problem exists in code generates boot floppies. Am I right? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message