From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Feb 27 2:37:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9847114BDB for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 02:37:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA76706; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:32:49 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:32:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Stephen Rose Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha FreeBSD Mozilla machine In-Reply-To: <36D6F907.AEF75B1D@netscape.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Stephen Rose wrote: > I noticed a message in the Alpha FreeBSD list about Briano wanting an > Alpha > FreeBSD machine for Mozilla builds. I'm the Compaq (formerly Digital) > manager for porting work on site at Netscape. It also happens that I've > run FreeBSD for four years at home. Since I can break loose an Alpha, > I've offered it to Brian, which he accepted. However, trying to set it > up for him seems to involve some problems. I've installed the Feb. 6 > snapshot. Since it doesn't have XFree86, I've been trying to track down > how to build that. I've discovered the patches that seem to be > necessary, > but these need some gcc patches that seem to be out of sync with the gcc > that's in the snap. It seems to be looking for a freebsd-elf.h include > file that doesn't exist. My goal is to set this machine up for Brian so > that he can run a Mozilla tinderbox on it. To do this, I'll need X, > GTK, > and whatever else it depends on. Since none of us have huge amounts of > time to try all the combinations here, could you recommend the right > things to start with so I can accomplish this quickly? I could start > with a different snap if that's appropriate. Thanks. Where are you applying the patch? I think you need to be in /usr/src/contrib. To test this, I just did this: cvs -d /home/ncvs co contrib_gcc cd contrib_gcc patch -Ip1 < .../gcc.diff which applied with no errors. The -p1 argument was needed because my checkout produced a directory contrib_gcc instead of the normal name (/usr/src/contrib/gcc). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message