On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 05:39:04PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > 17:08 < joshe> huh, someone in #coreboot saying they were having merely a > small problem building coreboot on openbsd > > so I thought that was interesting. Turns out that seabios does build > ok on OpenBSD, and works ok in initial testing, with gcc 8 (as long as > it's using ld.bfd not LLD). (It does fail with gcc 4). > > This is one of only 3 ports setup to use base-gcc on clang arches, > the others: > > devel/arm-elf BROKEN since 2015 > devel/cil > sysutils/firmware/vmm > > Actually switching this in the ports tree at the moment is a bit > awkward because it will conflict with ports using gcc 4 from ports > but the diff looks like this if anyone is interested in testing. > > Generally I'd like to push ports to gcc 8. We already use it on > aarch64. It's the wrong time to switch others now, but maybe soon > after 6.5 is done .. Any thoughts on that? >
WRT seabios, as long as it works, I'm ok with moving it to whatever version of gcc you think is best. Thanks! > Index: Makefile > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/ports/sysutils/firmware/vmm/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.19 > diff -u -p -r1.19 Makefile > --- Makefile 19 Jan 2019 12:34:34 -0000 1.19 > +++ Makefile 8 Mar 2019 17:26:54 -0000 > @@ -1,25 +1,20 @@ > # $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.19 2019/01/19 12:34:34 sthen Exp $ > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 i386 > + > USE_LLD= No > +COMPILER= ports-gcc > +COMPILER_LANGS= c > +MODGCC4_VERSION= 8 > > # XXX errors with clang - same with/without integrated assembler > # error: invalid output size for constraint '=Qi' > # error: invalid input size for constraint 'Q' > # etc. in various files, coming from __GET_VAR / __SET_VAR. > # > -# XXX errors with ports-gcc and ld.bfd - > -# ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-x86-64 > (out/ccode16.o) to format elf32-i386 (out/code16.o) is not supported > -# > # XXX fails self-check with LLD - > # The version of LD on this system (ld -nopie -znorelro) does not properly > handle > # alignments. As a result, this project can not be built. > -# > -# FreeBSD are building this with ld.bfd and GCC (currently 8, but many > versions > -# previously) with apparently no special patches. > -# https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/misc/seabios/Makefile?view=markup > - > -CC = /usr/bin/gcc > > FW_DRIVER= vmm > FW_VER= 1.11.0 >
