On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:07:09AM +0000, Doan Vu wrote:

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Jochem: gcc built "out-of-the-box" with Per's make file. It probably used some 32-bit-ish options. Could you send me your patch anyways (I wasn't registered to the list yet when you sent it).

Hey. You said you used Jochem's bin86 patch already, and he's only sent 2 patches, so the one I've attached must be the one you want.. I hope.

About building Crux.. I had a quick look at Per's Makefile and saw words like bootstrap and stageX that reminded me of building Gentoo. I'm not a Makefile expert, but the file is easy to read and decipher. Would I be right in saying that building Crux basically entails "make bootstrap" and then trying to fix up the compile errors associated with x86_64? I'd like to give this a go after the exam period when I'm hibernating.

Not sure about this, this is my first effort at porting to another arch. My idea was to build the base ports on a distro, pkgadd them in a chroot, and in that chroot run the make bootstrap. Otherwise you'd have everything compiled against libraries from the host distribution...

One more thing.. Jochem's Crux tarball doesn't contain the contrib collection - according to the Makefile, bootstrap will try to do "all collections", so wouldn't it complain about the missing contrib?

Yep, forgot about them :( Here's the list of ports from base which don't compile with me: db lilo sysklogd tcsh traceroute I don't have time to look at them this weekend un fortunately. For lilo, Marcus sent in a mail containing a patch, but it's a big patch, untested, and looks dirty IMHO, although i'm not that experienced in C. lsantil says db compiles without the C++ API, but i don't think that's acceptable unfortunately...