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Re: XFS on PPC (Was: Re: TAKE - remove broken m_*devp)

To: "Thomas Graichen" <graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <thomas.graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS on PPC (Was: Re: TAKE - remove broken m_*devp)
From: "kerler" <kerler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:42:55 +0800
References: <200012210300.OAA82474@snort.melbourne.sgi.com> <002601c06b17$03f40f00$5ef1d092@chn.agilent.com> <news2mail-91s95q$suk$1@mate.bln.innominate.de>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
When i compile the kernel with xfs, it show the following error info.
Shall i use egcs-2.91.66 to compile?

======compile error========
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/opt/lbg/PROJECTs/journal-fs/xfs/linux-2.4.0-test11/
linux'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
scripts/split-include
scripts/split-include.c
scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config
gcc -V
egcs-2.91.66 -D__KERNEL__ -I/opt/lbg/PROJECTs/journal-fs/xfs/linux-2.4.0-
test11/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fom
it-f
rame-pointer -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-
unin
itialized -mmultiple -mstring   -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
cpp: output pipe has been closed
gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/egcs-2.91.66/' never
used
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
============================

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: XFS on PPC (Was: Re: TAKE - remove broken m_*devp)


> "kerler" <kerler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec does not include ppc support after
> > kernel24-2.4.0-XFS_BETA_4.src.rpm is installed using rpm.
> > how can i use xfs on ppc? and can xfs-cmds-1.0.5-1.src.rpm be used on
ppc?
>
> if you are willing to experiment a bit XFS is useable on ppc quite
> good ... the best is to checkout the XFS from SGI and compile a kernel
> by hand and try to boot it - it should work on some machines out of
> the box (imac etc.) and will most probably not work on others (g4
> etc.) - for those there are some ppc related changes missing in the
> current linux tree (the normal -testxy tree has the same problem)
> ... what i did here is mix the pmac-devel and the SGI XFS tree which
> resulted in a working XFS kernel on a g4 - so let me know if you
> have a machine on which the stock kernel does not work - then i can
> send you a diff
>
> also the xfs-cmds-1.0.5-1.src.rpm builds just fine on ppc for me
> (SuSE 7.0/ppc) with one little thing: i had to add the definition
> of O_DIRECT from include/asm-i386/fcntl.h to /usr/include/bits/fcntl.h
> top get it compiled cleanly
>
> some more information about the status of XFS on ppc you may find at
>
>   http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/xfs/ppc/
>
> good luck
>
> t
>
> --
> thomas.graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> clustering & security                             the linux architects
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>


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