Re: Locating source
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:31:13PM -0700, Matt Carter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, please direct to another list if this is the wrong place to post
> this.
> I figured I would start here...
This is the right place ;-)
>
> I have recently loaded Debian linux (hamm) onto my SS2. The install went
> well. I used the 4mm/local hard disk/ftp method (if any one cares :)
>
> I am a long time Unix user, long time developer, but a first time Linux
> user.
> So, naturally, the first thing I am trying to do with my new
> environment,
> is to build something. I decided to download the emacs20_20.2-6 stuff
> from the Debian ftp site and try and build it. I get to the temacs -dump
> phase,
> and then receive a floating point exception error. This error is
> occurring in the libm.so shared library.
The exp function is broken in the kernel. I compiled emacs19 by
explicitly specifying e in the relevant file instead of calculating
it.
Remember sparclinux is still thorny territory.
> Ok, now that I have bored you, here is my question... am I getting the
> source for Sparc Linux from the correct place ? the emacs code I
> downloaded was, as I said, from the debiam/hamm ftp site. I installed
> the source using the dpkg-source module.
Usually you compile:
$ dpkg-source -x foo.dsc
$ cd foo-version
$ dpkg-buildpackage -B -m'your email'
> After the emacs episode, I then tried downloading the glibc-2.0.7s
> module and
> compiling it. I figured I should try and find out why I was getting the
> FPE during my emacs build. Well, I can't build that either. It seems
> there
> is a header inclusion problem, etc., but I won't go into that now.
WRT the header problem check the mailing list archives on
http://www.debian.org. You have to correct a glibc-header
file. Additionally we are using the glibc2.1 branch of glibc for
historic reasons. You should look for glibc-pre2.1-version in libs.
Perhaps first try a package which is less of a challenge ;-)
If you are interested in contributing look around in the developer
corner on http://www.debian.org
Welcome aboard,
Christian
--
Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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