Changes to development script or enrivonment...

[carsten]

Hi,

I was curious about Torsten's comment and checked. The file we are talking about is in the
crosstool-0.43.tar.gz archive:

 

crosstool-0.43/patches/glibc-2.2.5/glibc-2.2.5-allow-gcc-4.0-configure.patch

and it should read like this:

Code Select Expand

Fixes
checking version of powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcc ... 4.0.0, bad
checking for gnumake... no
checking for gmake... no
checking for make... make
checking version of make... 3.80, ok
configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old:gcc


--- glibc-2.2.5/configure.old   2005-03-10 00:23:46.374213600 -0800
+++ glibc-2.2.5/configure       2005-03-10 00:25:13.313996744 -0800
@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@
   ac_prog_version=`$CC -v 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*version \([egcygnustpi-]*[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
-    *gcc-2.9[5-9].*|*2.8.[1-9]*|*2.9|*2.9.[0-9]*|2.9[5-9]*|3.[0-9]*|cygnus-2.9[1-9]*|gcc-2.9[5-9]|gcc-2.1[0-9][0-9]|sgicc-*
)
+    *gcc-2.9[5-9].*|*2.8.[1-9]*|*2.9|*2.9.[0-9]*|2.9[5-9]*|3.[0-9]*|4.[012]*|cygnus-2.9[1-9]*|gcc-2.9[5-9]|gcc-2.1[0-9][0-9
]|sgicc-*)
        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;



The patched line is in the lower third and reads (change marked in red):

+    *gcc-2.9[5-9].*|*2.8.[1-9]*|*2.9|*2.9.[0-9]*|2.9[5-9]*|3.[0-9]*|4.[012]*|cygnus-2.9...

because, as Torsten pointed out, it won't allow compiler past 4.0 to be used. I guess this would fix our problem,
but I am actually checking it out (had to interrupt my process based on gcc-3.3, but I think it's worth it...).

I will keep you informed here...

BR,
Carsten.

[carsten]

Good News! 

It seems the patch will allow us to use also compiler > 3.3 (I tested with Debian 4.1.1-21, which is 4.1.2 prerelease).

I was able to create a dongle and it works perfectly.

Chris, when I find your email, I will mail you that one file...maybe you can change it in the package.

Thanks Torsten for pointing that out!

Best Regards,
Carsten.

[davep]

Also working on my Mandriva box after applying the crosstool fix.

One other problem when building the NFS-mount version. While the VOMP kernel is built locally, the modules are supplied by the nfs tarball, and there is a version mismatch:

./insmods.sh
Using /lib/modules/2.4.31/misc/os_core.o
insmod: kernel-module version mismatch
        /lib/modules/2.4.31/misc/os_core.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.31-v1.1-hcwmvp
        while this kernel is version 2.4.31.

A quick fix is to add the "-f" option to the insmod lines in insmod.sh.