Hi.
Turing (http://turing.ubishops.ca/) is a dual G5 (the 2GHz variety),
and it runs a 64-bit Gentoo installation (used to be Yellow Dog Linux,
really on-line in its Gentoo incarnation since yesterday). To be more
precise this is a development machine plus a HTTP/mail/IMAP server on
the side, and as far as I can tell everything in this respect runs
mostly smoothly (exceptions shall be summarized shortly).
What does not run (at all) is X, the server
(x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1) segfaults upon loading the bitmap module
or something (I am not at the console right now so I cannot run it,
but in any case it dies very early in the startup process) so not even
Xeasyconf has any chance to complete whatsoever. This is by no means a
huge problem but I will eventually like to make use of the nice Apple
Studio display (and get rid of the second machine in my office which I
use as a remote GUI), so advice is appreciated.
In any case, here is a summary of the installation process. The
installed stuff (and all the dependencies) works as far as I can tell,
except as noted in the list below.
At this time my ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has the value "~ppc64 ppc" but I set
the variable individually for packages during the initial install to
see what is keyworded how. If no entry appears in the "additional
keywords" in the table below, it means that the respective package
(and its dependencies, except those installed before) are keyworded as
~ppc64.
The uname/arch trick refers to the replacement of uname and arch by
the following, respectively:
/bin/uname $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 | sed -e s/ppc64/ppc/
/bin/arch $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 | sed -e s/ppc64/ppc/
In one instance, CHOST had to be changed as well. The formulation "USE
+=" stands for adding whatever follows to the USE flags.
Anyhow, FYI here is the table of what has been installed and
how. Advice on the enumerated problems is really appreciated,
expecially the problems with X and uname -a segfaulting.
--------------+----------+----------------------------------------------
emerged additional notes
keywords
--------------+----------+----------------------------------------------
sync
bootstrap-2.6 no NTPL, which posed problems afterwards
system problems with current coreutils,
'=coreutils-5.2.0-r2' works
except that uname -a segfaults
xorg-x11 builds fine but segfaults upon startup
apache
sendmail ppc
uw-imap ppc
kernel Character devices: rtc, agp miss headers
(2.6.7-rc0) Sound: Powermac devices choke
gentoolkit
vim Segfaults on exit
sysklogd
vixie-cron
pciutils
reiserfsprogs
zip ppc
cvs
qt
boost
ibm-jdk-bin ppc
tmpwatch ppc
logwatch ppc
root-tail ppc
openmotif ~ppc
lesstif ppc
xemacs ppc
pth ppc CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
gnupg-1.9.8 ~x86 problems with official app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.4
gnupg-1.9.8 installs
BUT: patches for 1.2.4 also available (bug 54814)
mozilla patched (ebuild + source, bug 54843),
-O2 used, segfaults (epiphany however works);
-O1 produces ICE
epiphany ~ppc ppc chhokes
glut ppc uname/arch trick
gnome-cups-
manager ~ppc ppc chokes
gnome ppc graphviz (needed by doxygen) chokes
==> USE += -doc
xmms ppc
xscreensaver ppc
lshw ppc
latex2html ppc
bind-tools uname/arch trick
gkrellm ppc
gkrellm-themes ~ppc
gkrellm-
trayicons ppc
gkrellmlaunch ppc
gkrellm-volume ppc
logrotate
curl
emerge mod_php ppc USE += "-truetype -fdftk"
with truetype required a lower, unbuildable freetype!!
procmail
spamassasin ppc
netkit-fingerd ppc
nmap ppc
ipx-utils x86
ncpfs *** ebuild fails, manual installation works OK!!
pine ppc
netkit-telnetd ppc
--------------+----------+----------------------------------------------
Let me know if this report is of some use in other places, and I will
submit it (I already submitted it to the fora).
Cheers,
Stefan
--
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as
it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
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