On 28/11/16 21:10, Stuart Henderson wrote: > You are right, gcc 4.9 generates some code using opcodes that need newer gas. > Try building the port with clang (it would also help the case where the port > itself has asm needing a newer assembler; clang has an integrated assembler > which generally has better opcode support, it's needed e.g. for some video > codecs in x86-land for this reason too). > > MODULES += lang/clang > MODCLANG_ARCHS = * > > gstreamer1 in -current already uses this but the currently available mips64el > package snapshot pre-dates this change.
A heads up, I'm in the process of giving this a try. I started it off yesterday afternoon and this evening I note that the llvm/clang build failed with an "out of memory" error. I've re-started on the off-chance it was a temporary issue, but I doubt it. Sadly the Yeeloong only came with 1GB RAM, and while it is in the form of a DDR2 SO-DIMM, it does not recognise a DDR2 4GB stick of RAM I borrowed from another machine (tried it, PMON2000 was a no-show, put the RAM back where I got it and that machine still boots fine), so upping the memory appears to be out. Last time I had this trouble, it was building Firefox… and adding swap files was no help. A workaround to this might be to bring up OpenBSD within QEMU… while it's not exactly going to be efficient, one advantage is I can give the VM as much RAM as the host can spare. NetBSD/evbmips appears to support the MIPS Malta board which I think QEMU emulates, and I seem to recall OpenBSD is a NetBSD fork. How feasible would it be to port that bit of NetBSD over to OpenBSD? Anyone tried this? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
