Re: [Gm2] FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE i386, succesful build (gm2.paranoid)

[Gaius Mulley]

Michel Derosa <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> I thought i'd report this successful build of the current (0.45? actually the
> last ChangeLog entry in the cvs says it's 0.44.. hmm) on an intel Pentium III,
> running FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE-p2.

many thanks for the successful report - I'll add it to the web page..

> Some massaging was required however.
> 
>    1) during the build process, on invoking the tools-src/createUlmSys
>       script, make (well gmake on a bsd system), failed with a syntax
>       error on line 5.. since FreeBSD's /bin/sh, is neither csh nor
>       bash, i suspect it didn't like the   \  at the end of
>       the first line defining PROTOTYPE_LIST.. (Silly me i didn't
>       try simply removing the offending \, and instead changed the
>       hash-bang to be  #!/bin/csh, which did the trick)
> 
>    2) gm2.verifyparanoid.. for some obscure reason, it would create
>       3 assembly files (for the first test-source file), and then
>       would promply fail with an invalid 'fd' error, removing the
>       space between >& and the ouput file, in the '! diff' tests
>       did the trick (again i suspect a /bin/sh issue here).

and also thanks for the bash, sh, hints

> I still need to try out the examples, and try for the testsuite,
> but so far so good :) I'll keep you posted on the results.
> 
> Thanks for making GM2 available!!!

no problem, thanks for all the feedback!

Gaius