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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:47:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: too bad, release mostly worked for alpha...
Message-ID:  <20010719174638.Y50024-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010720103715.K506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2001-Jul-18 07:15:04 -0700, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> >I guess things got too big again:
> >
> >Making the regular boot floppy.
> >Compressing doc files...
> >*** Error code 1 (ignored)
> >rm -rf /R/stage/mfsfd/stand/help/*
> >sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh -s mfsroot /R/stage /mnt  2880
> >/R/stage/mfsfd 8000 minimum2
> >Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 6.
> >Warning: 2432 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> >/dev/md11c:     5760 sectors in 2 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
> >        2.8MB in 1 cyl groups (6 c/g, 12.00MB/g, 384 i/g)
> >super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> > 32
> >cpio: write error: No space left on device
> >*** Error code 1
>
> This is probably because of the very generous (16 byte) code alignment
> that gcc enforces.  If anyone wants a local solution to this problem,
> there are a set of patches in gnu/26083 that add a set of alignment
> contol options for the Alpha (mirroring what's available for i386).
> David O'Brien is unwilling to commit them for various reasons (which I
> accept) but this functionality exists in gcc-3.

That's good to have around. I mostly was trying to run a release crank so
there'd be a snapshot newer than several months old, but I guess this won't
happen unless I skip floppy creation :-)...



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