PowerPC snapshot compilation failures

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> 
> The 2 files (procfs.h and syscalls.h - complete path omitted) 
> were exactly the same. So, as expected, the errors were also 
> exactly the same.

hmm, check your errno.h and syscalls.h files against SVN. They were recently updated and I think
somehow didn't make it into the snapshot. What is the exact error message?

The procfs.h is something else and needs some updating I guess. 
what kernel header are you compiling against?

 Jocke
> 
> I just tried today (Sep 24) snapshot.
> 
> glauber
> 
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:00:42AM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I just tried to compile today's snapshot in a IBM pSeries 
> box, and 
> > > it was unsuccessfull. Bellow, there is a summary of the 
> errors with 
> > > some comments
> > > 
> > > - vfork.S fails to compile. If the line #include 
> <error.h> is wipped 
> > > out from libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/bits/syscalls.h, everything 
> > > seems to flow okay. As the intel file does not include this file, 
> > > I'm assuming that it should not be there anyway.
> > > 
> > > - linuxthreads compilation fails. It goes okay if I 
> comment out the 
> > > following definitions from 
> libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/sys/procfs.h :
> > > 
> > > 	* ELF_NVRREG
> > > 	* elf_greg_t
> > > 	* elf_gregset_t
> > > 	* elf_fpreg_t
> > > 	* elf_fpregset_t
> > > 	* elf_vrreg_t
> > > 	* elf_vrregset_t
> > > 
> > > It seems that the ppc kernel defines them in its own way at 
> > > include/asm/elf.h
> > > 
> > > Though it does seems easy #ifdef placement problems, you 
> guys surely 
> > > know where to place them better than I do.
> > > 
> > > Please, note that it is my first contact to uclibc, so 
> I'm sorry if 
> > > I'm saying stupid things at all :-)
> > > 
> > > BTW, compilation does not suceed at all, receiving an 
> error message 
> > > when compiling shared libraries, but I'm done for today. Just in 
> > > case it helps somebody, I'm also posting the error message:
> > > 
> > > ld  -shared --warn-common --warn-once -z combreloc -z defs -s 
> > > -soname=libdl.so.0 \ -o libdl-0.9.28.so -fini dl_cleanup 
> > > --whole-archive libdl_pic.a \ --no-whole-archive 
> > > ../..//libc/misc/internals/interp.o \ -L../..//lib -lc  
> > > ../../lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 
> > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/3.3.3/libgcc.a;
> > > ld: Error: The symbol `__syscall_error' has a R_PPC_REL24 
> > > relocation, that means '../..//lib/libc.a(brk.o)' was 
> compiled without -fPIC.
> > 
> > try a newer snapshot, it should fail at least less times
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > -- 
> > Peter S. Mazinger <ps dot m at gmx dot net>           ID: 0xA5F059F2
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> > 
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