Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24280; Tue, 19 Dec 95 09:35:06 EST Received: from SENATOR-BEDFELLOW.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21497; Tue, 19 Dec 95 09:35:01 EST Received: (from root@localhost) by senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/2.3JIK) id JAA22429 for Linux-Development-System-Dist@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:13:48 -0500 Message-Id: <199512191413.JAA22429@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> From: Digestifier To: Linux-Development-System@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Linux-Development-System@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 09:13:44 EST Subject: Linux-Development-System Digest #134 Linux-Development-System Digest #134, Volume #2 Tue, 19 Dec 95 09:13:44 EST Contents: Q: libc with profiling info (Joris Van Dyck) Re: Are libc functions MT-safe? (Paul G. Fox) Re: 8088 port (Harald Milz) Re: Unusual disk activity under 1.3.45... (Prof R Boswell) gcc bug (Albert Cahalan) Re: Linux on BeBox? (Paul John Gyugyi) Re: Translating MASM syntax to gas (Morten Welinder) Re: Unusual disk activity under 1.3.45... (Kevin Huber) Re: AMD DX4-120 (fbroce) Re: Error compiling 1.3.48 (fbroce) Re: Error compiling 1.3.48 (Rob Janssen) RAID disk (Valery Brasseur) Re: gcc 2.7.2 and 1.2.13 kernel (Michael Jarvis) Re: SUCCESS: dosemu & winword6.0a (Arcadio Alivio Sincero) Problem while compiling (Bill Wendling) Re: [1.3.47] Undefined reference to `hostbyte' (Lars Dvlle) Re: mount iso9660 -norock: no UPPER CASE? (Rob Janssen) Re: Strip.. Why NOT use it? (Thomas Quinot) Re: [1.3.47] Undefined reference to `hostbyte' (Greg de Freitas) HELP Make won't work with new kernel. (Kevin R. Moule) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jak@denkart.be (Joris Van Dyck) Subject: Q: libc with profiling info Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:04:26 GMT HA, does anybody know where I can find libc with profiling info? Or do I have to compile it myself with the correct gcc-flags? Please e-mail response. Thanks, Jak PS: MY opninion, not my employer's!!!! --- #include Joris Van Dyck - Denkart NV jak@denkart.be Molenweg 107 - B2830 Willebroek - BELGIUM Tel. +32.3.866.00.22 Fax +32.3.866.03.01 ------------------------------ From: pgf@american.com (Paul G. Fox) Subject: Re: Are libc functions MT-safe? Date: 19 Dec 1995 02:46:42 GMT Peter Hofmann (peter@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) wrote: : as of libc version 5.2.16 threads are supported in the linux libc. : You have to compile the shared pthreads library yourself because : it is not included in the binary distribution of libc-5.2.16. Please : read the file release.libc-5.2.16 for details. : i'll bet you don't really mean "threads are supported in the linux libc", do you? is all of libc (malloc, printf, ctime etc) thread-safe? adding thread creation calls (ala pthreads) does not make the rest safe. -- ===================== paul fox american internet corporation pgf@american.com (home: pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us) ------------------------------ From: hm@seneca.han.de (Harald Milz) Subject: Re: 8088 port Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:22:30 GMT The Proteus (proteus@xmission.com) wrote: > architectures, Linux for the '88 would be one heck of a boost for > embedded OS development! ;) It's not really about "would be". Alan Cox is known to work on it. The project name is Linux/ELKS. -- Harald Milz (Harald.Milz@Linux.org) Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness you send out for it. -- Rex Reed ------------------------------ From: chem211@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Prof R Boswell) Subject: Re: Unusual disk activity under 1.3.45... Date: 18 Dec 1995 19:30:16 GMT fuZZy (tjimenez@site.gmu.edu) wrote: : Sangria (sangria@inlink.com) wrote: : : : Has anyone notice an unusal disk activity under the 1.3.45 : : kernel? : : : Almost like clock work . . . : : I've been experiencing the exact same thing, for a good long bit : of the 1.3.x development cycle (donna remember if it occured under : 1.[12].x) scared the bloody hell out of me the first couple of times. When I upgraded to Slackware 3.0 I found the following entry in the crontab: 40 07 * * * updatedb This fires off a paroxysm of disk activity EXACTLY like clockwork. Is that the explanation for your symptom? -- +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Ross Boswell | Email drb@chmeds.ac.nz | | Christchurch School of Medicine | FAX +64 3 364 0009 | | PO Box 4345, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND | Phone +64 3 364 0590 | +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: albert@krakatoa.ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan) Subject: gcc bug Date: 19 Dec 1995 05:21:19 GMT Someone wants to fix the x86 gcc bug! I need the test case that gcc screws up. I am looking for a way to detect the bug that makes you need -fno-strength-reduce. -- Albert Cahalan albert@ccs.neu.edu ------------------------------ From: pjg@tranquility.gyugyi.com (Paul John Gyugyi) Subject: Re: Linux on BeBox? Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 23:56:15 GMT In article <4ate9r$c2c@bigboote.WPI.EDU> joev@pyramid.res.wpi.edu (Joseph Vigneau) writes: In article <30ce697e.28112207@news.internex.net>, muzo wrote: >im14u2c@cegt201.bradley.edu (Joe Zbiciak) wrote: >>Has there been any talk of Linux on the BeBox? > >Frankly I'd think Linux on CHRP would be a much better use of the resources (they >are limited you know!). Umm.. What 'resources'? Linux ain't a company y'know, it's a hobby.. If The point seems moot. A donation of four BeBox's to the PowerPC Linux port people (i.e. the 'limited resources') just happened (as the Be guys told me during a demo Friday), so it looks like they will be supporting the platform, hopefully with SMP support. Check for the announcement. -- =--=-==-==--=-=-=--==-=-==--=-==-=-=-=-=-=-==--==-=-==--==-=-==-== Paul Gyugyi paul@gyugyi.com http://www.gyugyi.com/ ------------------------------ From: terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: Translating MASM syntax to gas Date: 18 Dec 1995 21:54:46 GMT Jean-Christophe Weill writes: >Hello, > Is there is anybody that wrote a program that translate MASM( or TASM) source >for 386 to Gas format ? Go to http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ and search the mail archives for the djgpp mailing list. I am pretty sure there is some hairy script in there that does a decent, but not perfect, job. Morten ------------------------------ From: khuber@ub.d.umn.edu (Kevin Huber) Subject: Re: Unusual disk activity under 1.3.45... Date: 18 Dec 1995 22:39:55 -0600 In article <4b3272$k6n@portal.gmu.edu> tjimenez@site.gmu.edu (fuZZy) writes: > Sangria (sangria@inlink.com) wrote: > : Has anyone notice an unusal disk activity under the 1.3.45 > : kernel? > : Almost like clock work, I come home from work, sit infront of > : another machine, and while working, my Linux machine would > : suddenly start with a barrage of disk activity. > : This would go on for about 5 minutes and everything would > : return to normal once again. [] > I've been experiencing the exact same thing, for a good long bit > of the 1.3.x development cycle (donna remember if it occured under > 1.[12].x) scared the bloody hell out of me the first couple of times. Probably a dumb question, but are you guys sure this isn't the cron job that runs updatedb for locate? The statement "almost like clockwork" is what caught my eye. -Kevin ______________________________________________________________________________ | Kevin Huber | | khuber@d.umn.edu | http://www.d.umn.edu/~khuber ------------------------------ From: fbroce Subject: Re: AMD DX4-120 Date: 18 Dec 1995 21:35:54 GMT Jumpers would't do it on my motherboard. I can either get the write back cache to work (as evidenced by the Norton ver8 259.4) or get a Norton of 237.8 and cure the boot floppy problem. I suspect a mb problem rather than the DX120 from reading the FAQ at AMD on the processors. Anybody got a good recomendation for a DX120 mb vlb? fb ------------------------------ From: fbroce Subject: Re: Error compiling 1.3.48 Date: 18 Dec 1995 21:39:54 GMT I get a different error..Here's my error with 1.3.48 Any ideas? ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ fs/filesystems.a \ drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/sound/sound.a \ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux xiafs.o(.text+0x1612): undefined reference to `xiafs_new_inode' xiafs.o(.text+0x1752): undefined reference to `xiafs_new_inode' xiafs.o(.text+0x1996): undefined reference to `xiafs_new_inode' xiafs.o(.text+0x2206): undefined reference to `xiafs_new_inode' xiafs.o(.text+0x29fb): undefined reference to `xiafs_free_inode' xiafs.o(.text+0x2dc9): undefined reference to `xiafs_count_free_zones' xiafs.o(.text+0x2dde): undefined reference to `xiafs_count_free_inodes' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Error compiling 1.3.48 Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:48:19 GMT In Greg Myers writes: >While compiling kernel 1.3.48 I ran into the follow error... >ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfffe0 arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o >init/version.o \ > arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o >mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ > fs/filesystems.a \ > drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a >drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/sound/sound.a drivers/pci/pci.a \ > /usr/src/linux-1.3.34/arch/i386/lib/lib.a >/usr/src/linux-1.3.34/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-1.3.34/arch/i386/lib/lib.a >-o vmlinux >init/main.o(.text+0x4f3): undefined reference to `rd_image_start' >init/main.o(.text+0x502): undefined reference to `rd_doload' >init/main.o(.text+0x512): undefined reference to `rd_prompt' Are you sure you patched it correctly? It compiles fine over here. The above looks like incorrect options to "patch", read the README. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: vb@goto.fr (Valery Brasseur) Subject: RAID disk Date: 19 Dec 1995 09:44:18 GMT Is there any drivers for RAID disk under Linux ? Is this for a special hardware or can it be done in software? ------------------------------ From: mjarvis@qns2.qns.com (Michael Jarvis) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.2 and 1.2.13 kernel Date: 19 Dec 1995 02:37:25 -0600 Mark Nordberg (Mark Nordberg (mark@quickening.catt.ncsu.edu)) wrote: > Has anyone else had problems with gcc 2.7.2 and kernel 1.2.13 elf. > I seem to think that gcc-2.7.2 has a problem. I am using the > precompiled version released to the public. Has anyone else seen this > problem? I'm having trouble compiling the 1.2.13 kernel with gcc 2.7.2 as well. Here's what I get: foo:/usr/src/linux# make zImage gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -m486 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h: In function `copro_timeout': /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:82: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:82: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:82: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:82: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h: In function `check_fpu': /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:78: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:82: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:78: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm' /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:82: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm'make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 foo:/usr/src/linux# It compiles just fine under 2.6.3. Any ideas? Suggestions? -michael -- Michael Jarvis | Finger for PGP Public key | QNSnet Technical Support mjarvis@qns.com | http://www.qns.com/~mjarvis | Questar Network Services GC3.1: GCS d s+++: a26 C++++ USLV++++$ P++++ L++ E--- W++ N++ !o K+ W-- !O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 X R tv b+++ DI+++ D++ G+ e>++ h---(*) r+++ y+++ ------------------------------ From: lotu@wam.umd.edu (Arcadio Alivio Sincero) Subject: Re: SUCCESS: dosemu & winword6.0a Date: 19 Dec 1995 05:16:08 GMT Klaus-Peter Gulden (orch021@wrzx13.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote: : Hi netters! : I really don't know whether this has already been posted to the world: : But if I havn't seen it with my own eyes, I would hardly believed this: : --------------------------------------------------------- : | Dosemu runs Winword 6.0a at a remarkably stable degree! | : --------------------------------------------------------- : Actually, I'm a LaTeX-user, so my knowledge about Winword 6.0 is far away : from perfect ;-). I played with Winword 6.0 about 15 min and tested: : - inserting bpm-graphics (of course molecules, see .signature) : - sizing of graphics : - preview (all scales) : - load / save : - bold, italic and underline : - table environment : - undo function : - and even printing in a file! How in the world did you manage this?? Care to share your SYSTEM.INI file? Everytime I try to run Windows, it crashes when I try to run some real apps. Hopefully, the DOSEMU guys will perfect Windows support real soon ... Arcadio ------------------------------ From: tanp@ns (Bill Wendling) Subject: Problem while compiling Date: 19 Dec 1995 06:04:04 GMT Hi all, I got this error message when I was compiling less-290 on Linux v1.3.47. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000004 current->tss.cr3 = 002ed000, %cr3 = 002ed000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0003 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<001550f9>] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 0039b0c0 ebx: 00000400 ecx: 00000100 edx: 0033c000 esi: 0033c000 edi: 08027000 ebp: 00299e94 esp: 00299e44 Process cpp (pid: 870, process nr: 16, stackpage=00299000) Stack: 00010018 001dbe40 00002be6 002fb828 08027000 00000400 00000000 00000000 002d1598 002d15d8 00299f14 001c38d0 00299ec0 00000000 00000000 0000000b 00000400 000027e6 00000400 ffffffe4 0039b0c0 000440c0 00206cc0 0025e2c0 Call Trace: [<0015837d>] [<00158398>] [<001583c6>] [<0012a52e>] [<0012a5a4>] [<0011b1df>] [<00113347>] [<0011faec>] [<0010a559>] Code: f3 a5 83 e3 03 89 d9 f3 a4 07 50 e8 b7 d8 fc ff 83 c4 04 8b gcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11 I was using gcc v2.7.2. Thanks for any help. -- Bill Wendling | "Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" tanp@ns.cencom.net | "I think so, Brain, but burlap chafes me so." "Boom Shanka" | Finger me for my Geek Code...NOW! ------------------------------ From: Lars Dvlle Subject: Re: [1.3.47] Undefined reference to `hostbyte' Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 23:00:38 +0100 habibie@catevr.fiu.edu wrote: > > Hi Linuxers, > > I just downloaded a copy of Linux kernel 1.3.47 and compiled to no avail. > The problem is due to "undefined reference to `hostbyte'" in > constants.o. > > constants.o(.text+0x386): undefined reference to `hostbyte' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 > > I am wondering if this happens to any of you. Seems to be a spelling mistake - I fixed it to "host_byte". Allthough I'm not sure that the fix is correct, it wount do much harm, since it appears in a diagnostic printing routine. Have fun, Lars ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: mount iso9660 -norock: no UPPER CASE? Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:19:45 GMT In <4b2cdc$kas@virtech.aib.com> eric@aib.com (Eric Youngdale) writes: >In article , >Rob Janssen wrote: >> >>Why not ignore case when the rockridge extensions are off? >>(or have some option to do so) >> >>The "msdos" filesystem also ignores case when opening files but returns >>names in lower case when reading the directory. This seems to work >>fine. > An interesting idea. You would need to be able to turn this >off in some cases - there are discs out there (Amiga, I think) that >may have mixed case filenames. Admittedly this won't come up often, >but the minute you make a change like this, we will find out who is >using these discs :-). Isn't that a violation of the iso9660 standard? I thought that all filenames on iso9660 discs are in upper case only. The rockridge extensions added the capability for mixed-case names. Of course I *don't* suggest to make the rockridge filesystem case-insensitive :-) Anyway, it can be selected by a mount option. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: thomas@cuivre.fdn.fr (Thomas Quinot) Subject: Re: Strip.. Why NOT use it? Date: 17 Dec 1995 12:45:31 GMT Stefan Froehlich (e9025800@stud1.tuwien.ac.at) icrit : > ...don't use it on *.o files :-) Stripping shared libs is also a bad idea... -- Grand.Bwana@cuivre.fdn.fr | Linux : the choice of a GNU generation ------------------------------ From: Greg de Freitas Subject: Re: [1.3.47] Undefined reference to `hostbyte' Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 03:44:49 +0000 habibie@catevr.fiu.edu wrote: > > Hi Linuxers, > > I just downloaded a copy of Linux kernel 1.3.47 and compiled to no avail. > The problem is due to "undefined reference to `hostbyte'" in constants.o. > The following shows where the error is: > > : > : > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/local/linux/arch/i386/lib' > ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ > arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ > fs/filesystems.a \ > drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/pci/pci.a \ > /home/local/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /home/local/linux/lib/lib.a /home/local/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux > constants.o(.text+0x386): undefined reference to `hostbyte' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 > > I am wondering if this happens to any of you. > > -- > habibie@catevr.fiu.edu v1.3.47: Compilation Error: constants.o(.text+0x486): undefined reference to `hostbyte' ....[deleted for brevity]... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel/v1.3.47/arch/i386/lib' ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfffe0 arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ fs/filesystems.a \ drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/pci/pci.a \ /usr/src/kernel/v1.3.47/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/kernel/v1.3.47/lib/lib.a /usr/src/kernel/v1.3.47/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux constants.o(.text+0x486): undefined reference to `hostbyte' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 3:34 uniques:/usr/src/linux# SNAP! -- Ciao 4 now, Greg. #-To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave A Legacy.-# #-Marque Memb# 330796-Email# #--HomePage=---# ------------------------------ From: krmoule@deathstar.comnet.ca (Kevin R. Moule) Subject: HELP Make won't work with new kernel. Date: 18 Dec 1995 02:49:14 GMT I have recently upgraded to ppp 2.2.0a but in the process I had to upgrade my kernel. I had the 1.3.20 source around and compiled the new ppp module into it. After rebooting the new kernel I noticed that make would not compile any targets unless the makefile file explicitly given. i.e. root@mole.comnet.ca:/usr/src/linux> make zImage make: *** No rule to make target `zImage'. Stop. but, root@mole.comnet.ca:/usr/src/linux> make -f Makefile zImage rm -f include/asm make: *** [symlinks] Interrupt ( I purposely interrupted it... ) I got the 1.3.47 source and tried compiling it but the same problem occurs, I have also tried other makefiles and stuff. I'm working on a 486 with slackware 3.0 and these commands used to work with the old 1.2.13 kernel. Any suggestion/comments? 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