On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:46:56PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Roy Bixler writes: > > I am running Sid and have recently been compiling many kernels in an > > effort to get the 'ncpfs' filesystem to work on the Ultrasparc. Using > > the egcs64 package works for kernel 2.4.19 but it chokes on > > 2.4.20-pre5 with an internal compilation error. I then tried to > > compile the kernel with gcc-3.2, but was very surprised to find that > > it doesn't support 64-bit compilations. I found even gcc-3.1 doesn't > > support 64 bit mode. I did succeed in compiling 2.4.20-pre5 with > > gcc-3.0 but I shortly got a panic with the resulting kernel and am not > > confident that gcc-3.0 is good for compiling kernels. Does anyone > > know when I'll be able to compile kernels with a non-ancient > > (i.e. newer than egcs-2.92) GCC? > > There is a patch in debian/patches/sparc64-build.dpatch to build the > 64bit binaries, which is broken since 3.1. The Debian packages are > built with the alias sparc-linux, but somewhere > unknown-sparc-linux-gnu gets in the way... To apply the currently > disabled patch, edit debian/rules.patch. > > It would be nice, if someone interested in sparc64 could reenable the > sparc64 build. Maybe building for sparc64-linux with code defaulting > to sparc-linux could be done.
So I need to build my own GCC then? I remember doing that in the old days on SunOS machines, so I could do it again. The reason I'm surprised about the disabled 64-bit mode is that I heard that David 'sparc' Miller says that GCC v. 3.1/3.2 appear to (once again) be suitable for kernel builds on the Ultrasparc. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks, -- Roy Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
