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From: Davide Cittaro <davide.cittaro@×××××××××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] kernel version and binutils issues
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:31:04
Message-Id: EFE424B1-4F07-4B01-89EE-081209D88F90@ifom-ieo-campus.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] kernel version and binutils issues by Jose Luis Rivero
1 On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Jose Luis Rivero wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:17:17PM +0100, Davide Cittaro wrote:
4 >> Hi again, since 2.4 has been deprecated, which is the latest 2.6.x
5 >> kernel
6 >> with full support for SMP on alpha (titan)?
7 >
8 > SMP alpha problems were fixed long ago (~2006) so latest stable
9 > should work
10 > just fine.
11 >
12
13 I'm glad to read this... I hope that tomorrow kernel building will go
14 fine :-)
15
16 >>
17 >> Also, while I was trying the stage 1 installation I've went through
18 >> an
19 >> error emerging binutils:
20 >
21 > Stage 1 and Stage 2 installations stop recieving support quite a long
22 > time ago, so please, go for a stage3 one.
23 >
24
25 Ouch! Is that the reason why gentoo handbook jumps from unpacking
26 stage to kernel configuration? Why stage1 and stage2 tarballs are
27 still on mirror?
28
29 >>
30 >> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/
31 >> trad-core.c:
32 >> In function 'trad_unix_core_file_p':
33 >> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/
34 >> trad-core.c:122:
35 >> error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
36 >> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/
37 >> trad-core.c:122:
38 >> error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
39 >> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/
40 >> trad-core.c:122:
41 >> error: for each function it appears in.)
42 >> make[4]: *** [trad-core.lo] Error 1
43 >>
44 >
45 > This is a known problem. Please try a stage3 clean install and if it
46 > fails, create a bug report and I will check it.
47 >
48
49 Great. I have to do this, even because I've just discovered that
50 stage2 has been blocked on coreutils building...
51
52 d
53
54 Davide Cittaro
55 davide.cittaro@×××××××××××××××.it
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