Re: toolchain, was Re: bogl: don't know screen type 1
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 01:43:14AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:16:27AM +0200, mike wrote:
> > > Btw, i noticed an error
> > > http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/images/daily/build_nativehd.log
> > > E: Couldn't find package libnss-dns-udeb
> > > make[2]: *** [stamps/get_udebs-nativehd-stamp] Error 100
> > > make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2
> > > make: *** [build_nativehd] Error 2
> >
> > Yep. debian-installer dailies are now *dead* until we get a modern libc
> > working.
>
> I wonder whether there are debian source packages for binutils, gcc and
> glibc having TLS/NPTL support for m68k.
I'd be surprised if that were the case.
> The patches posted to the binutils mailing list are incomplete. The
> binutils patch at
> http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/m68k/tls/
> is broken according to Kolla:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2009/07/msg00001.html
>
> But in that post (June 28) Maxim recommends using mainline binutils, and
> since then we have HJL binutils-2.19.51.0.14 released, "...based on
> binutils 2009 0722 in CVS on sourceware.org..." So I guess I should start
> there.
>
> I understand that the current GCC (4.4) lacks the necessary patches, and
> 4.5 is still uncooked (and that's a scary prospect). Can someone confirm
> that this is the necessary patch for 4.4:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-05/msg01024.html
> Presumably not this one?
> http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/m68k/tls/gcc_patch2
> (and gcc_patch1 is clearly broken... perhaps it was actually the same
> thing before being mangled... Stephen, I don't think this "/tls" directory
> is helping any.)
Shall I remove it then?
> Or perhaps there is a known-good gcc 4.5 snapshot (FWIW, I'd much rather
> patch a debian compiler instead, which means 4.4 or preferably older.)
It would be wonderful to have debian gcc 4.4 building on m68k. It
never has.
> As for eglibc, there are a number of branches listed here,
> http://www.eglibc.org/repository
> The question is, which branch, snapshot or release might meet be suitable?
>
> With this information, I could attempt to build a toolchain from upstream
> sources, or figure out whether or not the debian archive has the necessary
> source packages...
The life is fast ebbing from debian/m68k as far as I can tell. I'm not
sure if there is sufficient energy to revitalize it. I'd be delighted to
be proven wrong.
Peace,
Stephen
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<stephen@marenka.net>
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