Mac mini and FreeBSD - buildworld

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:01 PM +1000 1/27/05, Peter Grehan wrote:
>>
>>I tried to do a buildworld of the latest /usr/src, and that dies
>>while trying to build libasn1 in kerberos5, with an
>>    'Abort trap (core dumped)'
>>in cc.  However, I was able to do a complete build/install cycle
>>if I started with the snapshot of /usr/src which was installed by
>>the CD.  It looks like that /usr/src might include a few important
>>changes which haven't been committed yet.
>
>  Yes: the main one is the toolchain patch:
>
>   www.freebsd.org/~grehan/sysv4.h.diff
>
>  Half of this patch is in gcc source: not sure what's happening with
>the __PIC__ portion since I haven't been able to raise David O'Brien
>on that matter.
>
>  There's another one for module support:
>
>   www.freebsd.org/~grehan/rs6000.c.diff
>
>  .. but that won't stop a successful build.

Okay.  I added those two updates, and I was able to do a complete
buildworld/installworld cycle.  The only noticeable problem when I
rebooted was a stream of complaints about ttya, so I just changed
the entry for that from 'on' to 'off' in /etc/ttys.

>  There's a minor sysinstall diff, but no major ones I can think of.

I thought I would look to see if there were other updates which might
be of interest.  It looks like the src tree that you built from was
from about 1:48 EST on Dec 27th.  Comparing that src-tree to the one
on the CD image, I noticed the following:

   lib/libstand/cd9660.c - something about HFS/ISO9660 hybrid CD's
                           an Apple OpenFirmware 3
   sys/dev/gem/if_gem.c - some changes wrt IFQ maxlen and dequeue.
   sys/dev/ofw/ofw_console.c - "ofw_nopoll" variable introduced to
                   neutralize a while loop in ofw_timeout().
   sys/dev/zs/*  - several changes probably tied to tty's
   sys/modules/Makefile - changes wrt the building of modules for
                   'mem', 'uart', 'syscons' and 'netgraph' (it seems
                   to completely drop 'mem', but I suspect that's a
                   mistake...)
   sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC - a couple of changes.  I actually used
                   this GENERIC (from the src tree on the ISO) for
                   my own system build.
   sys/powerpc/powerpc/* - several changes which I didn't look through.
                   At least some (if not all) of these have been
                   committed to HEAD since the snapshot on the Mac ISO.
   usr.sbin/sysinstall/config.c - minor change to recognize partitions
                    of type = "apple" for powerpc.

There were a few other files which had useful-looking changes,
but the changes have already been committed to HEAD.

Also, there were quite a few files which had changes that had
something to do with "spinlocks" vs "critical" areas.  I didn't
even want to think about pretending to figure those out...

The build that I did used the sources from Dec 27th, plus the two
updates you mentioned.  That seems to be working okay, but I haven't
pushed it too much.  Sometime this week I'm going to try another
build with an up-to-date snapshot of HEAD, the two updates you
pointed at, and perhaps some of the others listed above.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu