From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike Subject: Re: toolchain, was Re: bogl: don't know screen type 1 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 03:57:05 +0200 Message-ID: <8259f0250909041857i50333429hc01c814a5e1a4e0f@mail.gmail.com> References: <8259f0250908302028n9b0cb56td402539007736fce@mail.gmail.com> <20090831120617.GA1114@marenka.net> <8259f0250908310558l3ddd5fam7d15946a7c1e8572@mail.gmail.com> <8259f0250908311511h77270544vb2dc3dd383f1add8@mail.gmail.com> <8259f0250908311516r49e54c7fi44ead0f040cade30@mail.gmail.com> <20090901151747.GB27514@marenka.net> <20090905010830.GA14809@marenka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:35589 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934146AbZIEB5G convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:57:06 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1029076fxm.37 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:57:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090905010830.GA14809@marenka.net> Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Gunnar von Boehn The thing is, its been proven that gcc produces slower and slower 68k binaries, its probably not the linker in binutils at all see. http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3D519318 and ( not 100% sure if its the correct thread, but the natami team have noticed the issue http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=3D3¬e=3D2&z=3D9M0ieT Including Gunnar Von Boehn in this now, cause they've done alot more research, and can probably fill in what freescale have, and havent done. I suspect they have been tweaking the code for newer "68k's" or coldfires, rather than branching it off? Cheers -Spike 2009/9/5 Stephen R Marenka : > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 01:43:14AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: >> >> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Stephen R Marenka wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:16:27AM +0200, mike wrote: >> > > Btw, i noticed an error >> > > http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/images/daily/build_n= ativehd.log >> > > E: Couldn't find package libnss-dns-udeb >> > > make[2]: *** [stamps/get_udebs-nativehd-stamp] Error 100 >> > > make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2 >> > > make: *** [build_nativehd] Error 2 >> > >> > Yep. debian-installer dailies are now *dead* until we get a modern= libc >> > working. >> >> I wonder whether there are debian source packages for binutils, gcc = and >> glibc having TLS/NPTL support for m68k. > > I'd be surprised if that were the case. > >> The patches posted to the binutils mailing list are incomplete. The >> binutils patch at >> http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/m68k/tls/ >> is broken according to Kolla: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2009/07/msg00001.html >> >> But in that post (June 28) Maxim recommends using mainline binutils,= and >> since then we have HJL binutils-2.19.51.0.14 released, "...based on >> binutils 2009 0722 in CVS on sourceware.org..." So I guess I should = start >> there. >> >> I understand that the current GCC (4.4) lacks the necessary patches,= and >> 4.5 is still uncooked (and that's a scary prospect). Can someone con= firm >> that this is the necessary patch for 4.4: >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-05/msg01024.html >> Presumably not this one? >> http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/m68k/tls/gcc_patch2 >> (and gcc_patch1 is clearly broken... perhaps it was actually the sam= e >> thing before being mangled... Stephen, I don't think this "/tls" dir= ectory >> is helping any.) > > Shall I remove it then? > >> Or perhaps there is a known-good gcc 4.5 snapshot (FWIW, I'd much ra= ther >> patch a debian compiler instead, which means 4.4 or preferably older= =2E) > > It would be wonderful to have debian gcc 4.4 building on m68k. It > never has. > >> As for eglibc, there are a number of branches listed here, >> http://www.eglibc.org/repository >> The question is, which branch, snapshot or release might meet be sui= table? >> >> With this information, I could attempt to build a toolchain from ups= tream >> sources, or figure out whether or not the debian archive has the nec= essary >> source packages... > > The life is fast ebbing from debian/m68k as far as I can tell. I'm no= t > sure if there is sufficient energy to revitalize it. I'd be delighted= to > be proven wrong. > > Peace, > > Stephen > > -- > Stephen R. Marenka =C2=A0 =C2=A0 If life's not fun, you're not doing = it right! > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht= ml > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html