From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 1 08:39:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA07709 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:39:20 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA07666 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:39:06 -0800 Received: from masi.ibp.fr (root@masi.ibp.fr [132.227.60.23]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id RAA14335 ; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 17:08:47 +0100 Received: from hebe.ibp.fr (card@hebe.ibp.fr [132.227.64.34]) by masi.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id RAA13683 ; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 17:08:35 +0100 From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Received: by hebe.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) id RAA26475 ; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 17:08:28 +0100 Message-Id: <199503011608.RAA26475@hebe.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Since lites-1.0 is out... To: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 17:08:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: bakul@netcom.com, hasty@netcom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503010258.SAA10438@netcom14.netcom.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr" at Feb 28, 95 06:58:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1138 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hmmm..., I think the biggest problem in building lites is mach4 > we are still using a very old gas which core dumps when attempting > to compile a .s file. The fix is to get the latest gas and build > it for freebsd. I peruse around the latest gas and notice there > were no configuration files for freebsd however there some for > netbsd so I guess that is a start. There are two problems when building Mach 4 on FreeBSD 2: 1. the latest version of Mach4 contains a bug and cannot boot on a 4.4BSD filesystem, 2. the assembler used in FreeBSD is not able to assemble two Mach assembly source files because it cannot handle the ``.bss'' directive. I have patches for both of these problems. I have sent the first one to the mach4 mailing list, and the second one to the freebsd-hackers list (it seems that nobody ever commited it). BTW, once you have compiled Mach4 on FreeBSD, compiling and running Lites on your PC is very easy. I have written a small note describing the build process. It is a bit out of date unfortunately but I can update it and send it to interested persons. > > Amancio > Remy