cvs build failure (x86, alpha, hppa...)
Paul Mackerras
paulus@samba.org
Sun Apr 20 11:59:00 GMT 2003
Kevin B. Hendricks writes:
> Speaking of that... what is the status of support for ppc32? I have seen
> lots and lots of patches go past but I am unsure of when or where the tool
> changes are available.
>
> I would defintely like to build and test the nptl support for ppc32 for
> linux, so where should I find:
>
> - the right binutils or a patch
CVS binutils has the necessary TLS support.
> - the right gcc version or a patch
Alan Modra (cc'd) has been working on this. I am on holidays at the
moment, so I won't be able to check the current versions of things
for the next week. I believe the deal is that you get the gcc 3.3
branch from CVS and then go to ftp://ftp.linuxppc64.org/pub/people/amodra
and get the latest patch you find there.
> - any required glibc patches
All in CVS as far as I know.
> - is there a minimum kernel verison required - I heard a rumor
> that someone (RedHat?) had backported needed changes to the 2.4.20 series
> (are these patches available)?
All in Linus' current BK (or the linuxppc-2.5 tree) for 2.5.
For 2.4 I'm not sure; there would be a 5- or 10-line change needed to
arch/ppc/kernel/process.c (to implement CLONE_SETTLS etc.) as well as
any generic backport of futex stuff etc.
Paul.
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