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The feed has been rebuilt with -fPIC, please re-test when Packages* in http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa … /unstable/ has a timestamp of Mar-8, 2008 (in 20 minutes or so).

Still quite some packages broken, but first I would like to get those built working.
Contributions to unbreak any packages welcome.

If you are compiling your own packages you can set up a source which is a folder on the DNS323 and use a file:// URL in your ipkg.conf instead of using a web server.

First on your build machine build one or more packages and make an index file for the packages that you have built:

$ make <foo>-ipk
$ rm -f builds/Pa*; make index PACKAGE_DIR=builds

(See the bottom of http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/DebianArmEtch.)

Then copy the packages (*.ipk) files and the Package.* files to your DNS323.

Edit your ipkg.conf file to include a line like

src local_builds file:///mnt/HD_a2/optware_builds

And then run "ipkg update", "ipkg list", "ipkg install ..."

("ipkg --help" shows that you can just do "ipkg install <ipkg filename>" too)

Trying to run perl produces this familiar error:

/mnt/HD_a2/ipkg # perl -v
R_ARM_PC24: Compile shared libraries with -fPIC!

I looked at the console output from the make script and noticed that -fpic (lower case) was used during the build, not -fPIC. So, on the build machine, I ran

find sources/ -type f -exec grep -H fpic {} \;

And spotted the file
$(OPTWARE)/sources/perl/Cross/config.sh-dns323

I changed a line in there from

cccdlflags='-fpic'

to

cccdlflags='-fPIC'

cleaned out the build directory and rebuilt perl.

Unfortunately when I look at the console output during the build there are still a few '-fpic' (lower case) options sneaking in to some of the build commands, and the resulting build has the same problem. I can't see where I can change the remaining fpics - any clues anyone?

Last edited by sjmac (2008-03-08 15:33:22)

One thing I missed in the original toolchain build was to fix the symlinks like on the wiki page. It is fixed now in optware svn.

Maybe worth a rebuild. But I'd like to know if it makes any difference.

php, php-apache, and eaccelerator can build with the symlink fix.

Last edited by bzhou (2008-03-08 21:10:02)

Made one change to optware/make/perl.mk http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/optware/changeset/7942

Based on result of

 

arm-linux-uclibc-readelf -a libperl.so  | grep PC24

seems to take effect applying -fPIC. Please rebuild and test.

sjmac wrote:

However, isn't $(OPTWARE)/make/perl.mk (aka $(OPTWARE)/dns323/make/perl.mk) used for every target, so you've added fPIC for all builds?

That is ok, because my change basically means:

if TARGET_CUSTOM_FLAGS contains -fPIC:
  force CFLAGS to have -fPIC by appending "CFLAGS = -fPIC" in perl/Cross/config

Right now, dns323 is the only platform to have -fPIC in TARGET_CUSTOM_FLAGS. (I guess it's because of old binutils)

jules wrote:

Tsharsk,W3m,lynx appear to have the -fpic error even after this updates.
Other packages tested:
Not working: Mc (weird term error, couldn't get this to work), iftop (runs ok for 10 sec, then kills itself)
Broken: jamvm (missing libffi and likely other libs), swi-prolog (librt missing)

swi-prolog probably should work after the latest update (toolchain lib* symlink fix).

Can you run mc under screen?

Some other packages to test: samba, samba2, openssh, irssi, svn, git, phoneme-advanced (CVM from Sun), emacs22, lua, php, ruby, sqlite, erlang, rtorrent.

After getting perl to work, I'd be interested in making sure python25 runs.

I'm still getting -fPIC problems with python25, is this the latest feed? http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa … s/unstable ?

I'll do a check asap and try and post the culprit files.

Last edited by HaydnH (2008-03-10 19:58:51)

Just wrote a file called emacs.txt using the emacs22 package in console UI mode.

Seemed to work OK, but isn't F10 supposed to work the menus? Also Alt-x didn't work like I remember - it didn't do anything, but used to be meta-x.

update: Esc ` opens the menus.

now, quickly

ipkg remove emacs22

Last edited by sjmac (2008-03-10 20:03:47)

There is a problem with the emacs22 ipk - after I quit the program (CtrlX-CtrlC in Emacs) then the characters typed by me are no longer echoed in my terminal session (telnet from the Vista command line).

Is it supposed to work with an X server? I couldn't get it to open on my X display.

Last edited by sjmac (2008-03-10 22:18:42)

bzhou wrote:

Can you run mc under screen?

Yeah, but it's really sloooow.

bzhou wrote:

Some other packages to test: samba, samba2, openssh, irssi, svn, git, phoneme-advanced (CVM from Sun), emacs22, lua, php, ruby, sqlite, erlang, rtorrent.

I'll give phoneme a try.

sqlite seems fine:

/mnt/HD_a2 # ipkg update
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/dns323/cross/unstable//Pac
kages
Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/optware
Successfully terminated.
/mnt/HD_a2 # ipkg install sqlite
Installing sqlite (3.5.6-1) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/dns323/cross/unstable//sql
ite_3.5.6-1_arm.ipk
Configuring sqlite
Successfully terminated.

/mnt/HD_a2 # sqlite3 --version
3.5.6

/mnt/HD_a2 # sqlite3 ltf
SQLite version 3.5.6
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> create table tt ( c1, c2);
sqlite> insert into tt values ( 1 , 'hello' );
sqlite> insert into tt (c2, c1 ) values ( 'world', 2 );
sqlite> .quit
/mnt/HD_a2 # sqlite3 ltf 'select * from tt;'
1|hello
2|world