On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 03:21:13PM -0400, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>
> I've cooked a diff to allow building memtest86+ with clang. Great. The
> problem is that I just get a black screen on this x61 laptop (the only
> noticeable thing is that the cursor stays in the middle of the screen).
>
> The only problem is, I get the same result with a build with base gcc.
>
> Could people please apply the diff below, build and install memtest86+,
> and then test it? Just type
>
> > boot memtest
>
> at the boot(8) prompt.
>
> Years ago I had tested this on an x240 machine, and I blamed the failure
> on my laptop being too recent. But maybe that stuff is plain broken
> since years.
>
> Both i386 and amd64 could be tested, btw. Thanks in advance.
>
> PS: earlier I had tried to update the port to the latest version but
> didn't get it to build. Maybe this time...
>
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /d/cvs/ports/sysutils/memtest86+/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -u -p -r1.10 Makefile
> --- Makefile 4 Feb 2014 10:14:52 -0000 1.10
> +++ Makefile 10 Aug 2017 07:37:10 -0000
> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
>
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 i386
>
> +# XXX base gcc
> +CC= /usr/bin/gcc
> +
> COMMENT= thorough, stand alone memory test
> VERSION= 4.20
> DISTNAME= memtest86+-${VERSION}
Works fine here with your patch on my amd64 X230.
Any particular reasons we're still at 4.20 instead of 5.01?
