Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard
Ultra 5 machine), which is currently running stock 2.4.1 on Red Hat 6.2 quite
happily.
I have tried upgrading to -ac10 and now -ac12, but both fail during
compilation (using gcc-2.91.66-sparc) at the same point, in what appears to
be the sparc32 syscall conversion code:
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sparc64-linux-gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include
-m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -Wa,--undeclared-regs -ansi -c sys32.S -o sys32.o
sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -m64
-pipe -mno-fpu -mcpu=ultrasparc -mcmodel=medlow -ffixed-g4 -fcall-used-g5
-fcall-used-g7 -Wno-sign-compare -Wa,--undeclared-regs
-c -o sys_sparc32.o sys_sparc32.c
sys_sparc32.c: In function `sys32_quotactl':
sys_sparc32.c:907: storage size of `d' isn't known
sys_sparc32.c:907: warning: unused variable `d'
sys_sparc32.c: In function `sys32_nfsservctl':
sys_sparc32.c:3791: warning: implicit declaration of function `sys_ni_syscall'
make[1]: *** [sys_sparc32.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_arch/sparc64/kernel] Error 2
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I have tried it 3 times now, with clean source trees, so there's clearly a
problem somewhere. Please be gentle - I'm not a coder, and this is my first
post to the kernel list :)
Regards
Alastair
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> I have tried upgrading to -ac10 and now -ac12, but both fail during
> compilation (using gcc-2.91.66-sparc) at the same point, in what appears to
> be the sparc32 syscall conversion code:
The -ac tree doesnt currently support sparc because nobody has written the
32/64bit converts for the new quota structs.
It's a quick change at arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c:907 from:
struct dqblk d;
to:
struct disk_dqblk d;
Compiles and works great on my ultra.
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard
> > Ultra 5 machine), which is currently running stock 2.4.1 on Red Hat 6.2 quite
> > happily.
>
> We arent tracking the -ac patches at the moment and alan can't be expected
> to ensure it compiles on all architectures. Best bet is to stick with
> Linus releases.
>
> Anton
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:41:48PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard
> > Ultra 5 machine), which is currently running stock 2.4.1 on Red Hat 6.2 quite
> > happily.
>
> We arent tracking the -ac patches at the moment and alan can't be expected
> to ensure it compiles on all architectures. Best bet is to stick with
> Linus releases.
You are right, of course, but then ASN Stephens is also right for reporting
a problem in the -ac patches. Or do you expect people to ignore bugs in the
-ac series and let bugs go unreported? How will the -ac series improve, and
ultimately, how will the official Linux kernel improve?
Granted, in this case, Alan already knew the problem. :-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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> Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard
> Ultra 5 machine), which is currently running stock 2.4.1 on Red Hat 6.2 quite
> happily.
We arent tracking the -ac patches at the moment and alan can't be expected
to ensure it compiles on all architectures. Best bet is to stick with
Linus releases.
Anton