Re: Issues building the g-i on PowerPC

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > Anyway, i was able to produce a dfb 1.0 based miniiso for powerpc [3]: 
> > it would be nice if someone could give it a try and report whether it 
> > works or not
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Attilio
> >
> > [3] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_powerpc_dfb1.0.iso
>
> I downloaded, burned and booted this on a Blue&White G3 PowerMac.
>
> When booted with the default (just <CR> at the "boot:" prompt) the 
> monitor showed an internal diagnostic "No Signal" and went into power 
> saving mode.
>
> When booted with "expert video=ofonly" at the "boot:" prompt, the screen 
> went red and flashed back and forth red with a black screen with the 
> error message "libgcc.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work"

ah, that looks to be #373253 once again: this bug was workarounded by 
adding the

EXTRAFILES = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1

line to i386 and amd64 conf files for gtk images: i did the same for 
powerpc and i see that library is now copied into the initrd tree.
Could you please try burning and booting the mini.iso image you find in 
my ~ in macswell once again (i also updated the iso on the 
debian.polito.it website) ?

many thanks

Attilio