Re: [Axiom-developer] Building Axiom 11/15/2004 on Solaris 9 Sparc

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

root <address@hidden> writes:

> Kostas,
> 
> re: gcl-2.6.5 out of CVS
> 
> >I've done some more work on building Axiom, and I now understand the whole
> >structure a little better.
> >
> >However, I cannot get past the problem of lisp dumping core, that I reported
> >in my initial mail.  Just to remind you,
> >
> >make[3]: Entering directory `/home/build/axiom/src/boot'
> >44 invoking make in /home/build/axiom/src/boot with parms:
> >SYS= sol9gcc
> >LSP= /home/build/axiom/lsp
> >PART= cprogs
> >SPAD= /home/build/axiom/mnt/sol9gcc
> >SRC= /home/build/axiom/src
> >INT= /home/build/axiom/int
> >OBJ= /home/build/axiom/obj
> >MNT= /home/build/axiom/mnt
> >Illegal Instruction - core dumped
> >make[3]: *** [/home/build/axiom/obj/sol9gcc/bin/bootsys] Error 132
> >make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/build/axiom/src/boot'
> >make: *** [all] Error 2
> >bash-2.05$
> >
> >Now I've tried using both 2.6.5 and 2.6.3, and the same problem occurred.
> >Since I sometimes suspect gcc, I also tried lowering the optimization in the 
> >top-level
> >Makefile.pamphlet from -O3 to -O2.  That didn't help either.  However, I 
> >noticed that
> >the o/ directory still gets built with -O3.  That could be a problem. I 
> >can't think of
> >an easy fix right now.
> >
> >I don't know much about lisp, so at this point I'd like to ask your advice 
> >about how
> >to proceed.
> >
> >For example,. I read on the GCL website that there some known problems with 
> >gcc on Solaris:
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >NEW! (20040823) An errata page to 2.6.5 on Sun Solaris has been added here . 
> >This fixes a problem
> >which may arise in the loader with certain gcc/ld combinations when C 
> >optimization is in force.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Is it worth getting GCL 2.6.5 out of cvs?  Or would it be better to try an 
> >older version, like 2.6.1?
> 
>                                               Kostas
> 
> 
> 
> Camm has suggested some fixes but I've been unable to build Axiom
> on the GCL-2.6.5 distributed with Axiom + the new patches.
> 

OK, perhaps we can look into this now.  I just started with a clean
2.6.5, applied the bfd patch at the bottom of
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/ERRATA-2.6.5.html, and built the
Debian axiom package successfully.  I'd use axiom CVS, but I'm not
sure how to splice in a gcl tree from somewhere else in the main build
sequence.

> Later today (it's early sunday morn at the moment) I'll get the latest
> CVS version and try to build Axiom on that version. If that works I'll
> upload it and you can try the build on it. 
> 

If we can avoid this, I'd appreciate it.

Take care,

> Tim
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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