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Date:      Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:49:12 +0100
From:      Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips@dino.sk>
To:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xz in base system trouble on MIPS
Message-ID:  <201012091049.14626.freebsd-mips@dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <4CFC1B01.4010009@bsdimp.com>
References:  <201012052310.37998.freebsd-mips@dino.sk> <4CFC1B01.4010009@bsdimp.com>

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On Monday 06 December 2010 00:06:41 Warner Losh wrote:
> On 12/05/2010 15:10, Milan Obuch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to test various system parts and ports building on my RSPRO.
> > There is a problem with xz as compiled with base system - trying to
> > build misc/mc gives 'unknown file format' error on
> > /usr/ports/distfiles/mc-4.7.4.tar.lzma tarball. After commenting out
> > IGNORE line in archive/xz Makefile, compilling, installing the port and
> > 'cp /usr/local/bin/xz /usr/bin/xz' this error is gone.
> > 
> > What could be root cause of this? As both base system and ports xz is
> > version 5.0, I think there must be some error in base system integration
> > or some tweaking is not done...
> 
> I always guess endian problems on MIPS or big endian ARM when things
> don't work quite right.  But I don't see any errors there...

I would expect something similar, too. I just asked if somebody encountered 
this error already so maybe an answer could be known...

> First step: diff the sources?

No difference found in souces (*.c, *.h), so maybe make infrastructure is 
different. I will try to compare build process if there are differences.
 
> also, current or stable?

current.

Milan



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