From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Dec 20 08:10:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23455 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 08:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep02-svc.tin.it (mta02-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23448 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 08:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paipai@box4.tin.it) Received: from winworkstation ([212.216.236.96]) by fep02-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19981220161022.HSAM6147.fep02-svc@winworkstation>; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:10:22 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Paolo Di Francesco" To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:14:01 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Why doesn't it compile? CC: Alfred Perlstein X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Message-Id: <19981220161022.HSAM6147.fep02-svc@winworkstation> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'm going to try _to_ be nice here. > As you want. > > Now what I have done is: > > > > 1) build the binutils. (No prob here) > > > > 2) unpacked the egcs1.1b > > > > 3) updated using patch to 1.1.1 > > > > 4) configured with > > > > --prefix=.... --target=sparc64-elf and --host=i586-unknown-freebsd2.2.7 > > Why the hell are you working with 2.2.7? We are working on -current (3.0) > and even so, 2.2.8 has been out for quite a long time. Why? I'm poor, I'm a student and I have not a credit card. I cannot buy cdrom in USA (no credit card, remember) and here in Italy I have found only the 2.2.7 version. Actually I have ordered (3 weeks ago) the 3.0 version and still nothing here in my hands or on my desk. If you prefer I can stop trying to experiment and developing with this port effort. You said there are a few developers, now I'm seriously considering to decrease that number by one... There's no help from this group and everything seems like a "private club". Noone post documents where it's explained how to do things in the "cooking book" way. I have tried to write some documents, but mine seems an isolated effort. > This configure line is way broken. Why? Where? ( I'm not saying it's not broken, I don't know, but you could be of more help if you tell me why and where it's broken.) > > 5) given > > gmake LANGUAGES="c" LIBGCC2_INCLUDES=-I/usr/include > I'm unsure if you're totally ignoring my advice on how to build this > properly. **PLEASE** check the archives of this list for my email. I have read all emails. But I have no choose. If you prefer I can stop annoying you with my messages and try to do it by myself, but the meaning of the word "group" means "more than one". So I can develop and ignore email (not so much in the last days) of this group, and when in the next years I have finished freebsd-sparc I can post a message. Or, I can try to solve my problems asking someone else (you in this case) to help me, to tell me where I can find docs, etc... > I think you need to work on this a lot more before you get involved with > this effort. > As you want. Tell me where I can read more about what you think can improve my knolwdge. > Get 3.0, read my message, look at the archive for Kapil's hints and my > message. I asked, many times, to all developers, to do docs, a more omogenic source, and many other things. I know everyone has other things to do, but I prefer to have one doc more than having 30 lines of uncommented code. I want to learn and improve the port effort and (this is my opinion) I cannot do it with "blind" source code (uncommented code, or code whose meaning is known only by who wrote the code) > I'm not even close to an expert on this stuff, but following the posts > Kapil and I have made isn't that difficult. No prob. Maybe I'm stupid. But I prefer to work on all platforms trying to build a toolchain. About which version of FreeBSD I'm actually using. I don't remember no mex where we have said we need 3.0 to _compile_ the toolchain. I don't remember this constrain. Yes, we said we have to start with the 3.0 kernel code, but I'm not working on the kernel code (yet), only building the toolchain. And more: I'm trying to build a toolchain to do experiments on various platforms. If you are interested send me a private e-mail. Thanks for your time. P.S. If you (reader) are interested: I have compiled binutils1.9.1 and now working on egcs1.1.1 (egcs1.1b with diff to update 1.1.1). Binutils compile well under FreeBSD2.2.7 and RhapsodyDR2/Intel. Ciao Ciao Paolo Di Francesco _ ->B<- All Recycled Bytes Message ... ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message