Re: Improved 9.1 support


Subject: Re: Improved 9.1 support
From: Bill Fink (billfink@capu.net)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 19:04:12 MDT


> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Bill Fink wrote:
>
> > On Mon Apr 02 2001, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> >
> > I'd appreciate it if as many as possible could give it
> > a thorough testing and report back to me - I'll release
> > it as 0.9.56 if no problems are found.
>
> Entering '/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/mol-rsync/emulation'
> cpp -D__ASSEMBLY__ -I../include -I/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/mol-rsync/sinclude mainloop_asm.S | as -o obj/mainloop_asm.o
> **************** DEBUG ENABLED IN mainloop_asm.S ***************
> mainloop_asm.S: Assembler messages:
> mainloop_asm.S:360: Error: alignment padding (1 bytes) not a multiple of 4
> mainloop_asm.S:360: Error: alignment padding (3 bytes) not a multiple of 4
> mainloop_asm.S:360: Error: ignoring least significant bits in branch offset
> mainloop_asm.S:360: Error: ignoring least significant bits in branch offset
> mainloop_asm.S:360: Error: ignoring least significant bits in branch offset
> make[1]: *** [obj/mainloop_asm.o] Error 1
> make: *** [_subdir_emulation] Error 2
>
> This is on a dual G4 running a BenH 2.4.3 final kernel with the
> pre mol-0.9.56 source rsync'ed just a few minutes ago.
>
> -Bill

Fixed this by updating binutils which contains as. Updated
from YDL 1.2.1 binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6.moto_1.7 to LPPC 2000 Q4
binutils-2.10.1.0.2-0a, and now MOL builds and runs fine, and
at least subjectively seems to be faster (I'm running MacOS 9.0.4).

Thanks for the great work Samuel!

                                                -Bill



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