Thread: Re: [Astlinux-users] Compile problems with i686 as the TargetArchitecture Variant

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Kristian,

Thanks for the feedback and links. I have switched to i586 and Generic i586
device for now and it seems to be going OK, except that I ran out of disk
space at one point and I was missing uudecode. I had to basically start
again after the disk space problem: cp -r dl dl-bak ; make clean ; make
distclean ; rm -f -r toolchain_build_i586 ; svn update ; make
If I didn't delete toolchain_build_i586 it would just immediately bomb
again.

ftp://ftp.samba.org/ isn't working today but I found the file at
http://samba.org/ftp/ppp/ppp-2.4.3.tar.gz (btw, there is a newer version
available too). I copied the file into the dl directory manually, but it is
still retrying via FTP (try: 4) and the timeouts are extremely long. Is
there anyway to cancel the getter_script.sh without cancelling the make? The
server has spent so long getting to this point I don't want to have to start
it again.

Having said that, I would be willing to try VIA with i586. Is this likely to
work then? What are the differences between Generic i586 and VIA builds?
Presumably it will overwrite build_i586/root so I'd want to back that up...

I saw your svn changes. :)

Is trunk nearly ready for a release? Or more importantly for me right now,
should it be stable?

Thanks for your help. This is my first time trying to compile AstLinux. I
need to add support, i.e. drivers, for a device that is not supported in the
standard build. How do I go about doing this? Presumably I can do it after
the main make has finished...

Sebastian

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Kielhofner
Sent: 18 January 2007 15:52
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Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Compile problems with i686 as the
TargetArchitecture Variant

On 1/18/07, Sebastian Auriol <sp...@sy...> wrote:
>
>
> Well trying to compile with i386/i686/Generic i586 doesn't work either (on
> 0.4 and trunk), with the same problems, so it looks like the i686 variant
> may be the problem.  I'm going to try again now using i586 as the variant
> for 0.4 branch and trunk...
>
> Sebastian
>
>

Sebastian,

  Thank you for your comments.  A couple of things:

1) Almost all VIA processors have known problems when running with
"i686" compiled code:

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-July/001194.html
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware+mini-itx

  There are other examples all over the place.  On the VIA, stick with i586.

2) In general, if you select a specific device under AstLinux target
devices, you really shouldn't just change the processor architecture.
If you want to do this, create a new target device that will select
your intended target CPU.  Those devices are there (and work with 586)
because they are a specific piece of hardware with a known
configuration.

3) "make clean" is broken all over the place.  Myself and the other
devs know this.  I have submitted a patch to both 0.4 and trunk to fix
the few problems that you pointed out but there are certainly other
problems with make clean.

4) These days, almost all development is done in trunk.  0.4 isn't
updated and fixed nearly as often (your mISDN CVS problem, etc).

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner

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