Re: Error when cross-compiling ruby for amd64

[Aivils <ai...@un...>]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 23:47, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:00:57AM +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> > Helge Hafting =EDrta:
> > >On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:49:53PM +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> > >
> > >>There's a chunk in ruby-2.6.9-20041021, that's wrong.
> > >>It causes the compile error in line 1616. Here's the correct chunk.
> > >>It's the line after 'case GIO_FONTX:'.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Thanks a lot, this compiled fine! :-)
> > >
> > >Helge Hafting
> >=20
> > And I hope it works on your machines, at least it works on mine. ;-)
>=20
> Thanks for all the help so far.
> The kernel works in the sense that it boots.
> Unfortunately, 2.6.9 for amd64 has exactly the same problem as
> 2.6.9 for i386, it hangs the machine when the xserver tries to
> utilize the radeon 9200SE PCI card.
>=20
> So I tried compiling 2.6.8.1, as that one works for i386 for me.
> I got this:
>=20
>   CC      arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.o
> arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c: In function `setup_arch':
> arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:582: error: `conswitchp' undeclared (first use=
 in=20
> this function)
> arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:582: error: (Each undeclared identifier is rep=
orted=20
> only once
> arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:582: error: for each function it appears in.)
> arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:582: error: `vga_con' undeclared (first use in=
 this=20
> function)
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/x86_64/kernel] Error 2
>=20
> Is there a trick to get this going, or will I have to wait
> for 2.6.10 and the next ruby release?

CVS-ed 2.6.9 arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c and
ruby-2.6.9-20041021.diff.bz2
does not contain these lines :)

You should manualy delete some lines
from arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c , if You will use versions below 2.6.9=20
diff -Nurp --exclude-from=3Dexclude linux-2.6.9/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c =
r269/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
=2D-- linux-2.6.9/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c      2004-10-19 00:53:07.00000=
0000 +0300
+++ r269/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c     2004-10-21 21:04:27.000000000 +0300
@@ -596,14 +596,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 #ifdef CONFIG_GART_IOMMU
        iommu_hole_init();
 #endif
=2D
=2D#ifdef CONFIG_VT
=2D#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE)
=2D       conswitchp =3D &vga_con;
=2D#elif defined(CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE)
=2D       conswitchp =3D &dummy_con;
=2D#endif
=2D#endif
 }

 static int __init get_model_name(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

Aivils