From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Dec 4 14:57:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9457D37B416 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17617; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:57:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id fB4Mug338038; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:56:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15373.21674.878247.904328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:56:42 -0500 (EST) To: "Craig Burgess" Cc: Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Craig Burgess writes: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Next: Anything I've tried to install which requires Gnome fails - > Attempting to install ICEWM: > > configure:7753: cc -o > conftest -O -pipe -mcpu=ev4 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -Wu > nused -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/gtk12 -I/usr/local/include/ > glib > 12 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib > conftest.c -L/usr > /local/lib 1>&5 > /tmp/ccoKog09.o: In function `main': > /tmp/ccoKog09.o(.text+0x8): undefined reference to `_nl_msg_cat_cntr' > configure: failed program was: > #line 7745 "configure" > #include "confdefs.h" Sometimes some of the ports don't have up-to-date depandancy lists & fail in configure. I don't know enough about gnu configure or FreeBSD ports to comment intelligently. You should probably resend this (minus the netscape resolver issues) to either freebsd-ports@freebsd.org or freebsd-gnome@freebsd. You mgiht want to tell them what packages you have installed (ls /var/db/pkg). It may also be a good idea to grab the latest version of the ports tree via cvsup before contacting anybody. FWIW, I'm using my alpha as my desktop machine with gnome-1.4, built last August. It took me the better part of a week to get it building (most was thumb-twiddling while it built). I contributed patches to get the alpha build working to the gnome@ people. I think most were integrated, so gnome should build, but I haven't tried it since I don't want to kill my working setup. BTW, If you have an ev56 (21164A) or better, set CPUTYPE=ev56 in /etc/make.conf Some ports compile with -O2. gcc -O2 is suspected of creating buggy code on alphas when gcc has to do shifty/masky to access memory at byte or word granularitues. CPUTYPE=ev56 tells gcc to use the byte-word instructions which are present in ev56 and better & leads to better code. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message