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From: Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] kernel version and binutils issues
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080121165421.GB8502@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0E66D64-7637-4EB9-8368-4B8A14DC4B4F@ifom-ieo-campus.it>

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:17:17PM +0100, Davide Cittaro wrote:
> Hi again, since 2.4 has been deprecated, which is the latest 2.6.x kernel 
> with full support for SMP on alpha (titan)? 

SMP alpha problems were fixed long ago (~2006) so latest stable should work
just fine.

> Also, is written that 
> gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources should work well the same, so I wonder 
> which one I should try first.

Whatever you prefer. We recommend gentoo-sources which recieve full
support from the Gentoo Kernel Team.

>
> Also, while I was trying the stage 1 installation I've went through an 
> error emerging binutils:

Stage 1 and Stage 2 installations stop recieving support quite a long
time ago, so please, go for a stage3 one.

>
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/trad-core.c: 
> In function 'trad_unix_core_file_p':
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/trad-core.c:122: 
> error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/trad-core.c:122: 
> error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/trad-core.c:122: 
> error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[4]: *** [trad-core.lo] Error 1
>

This is a known problem. Please try a stage3 clean install and if it
fails, create a bug report and I will check it.

-- 
Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@gentoo.org>
Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 13:17 [gentoo-alpha] kernel version and binutils issues Davide Cittaro
2008-01-21 16:54 ` Jose Luis Rivero [this message]
2008-01-21 19:30   ` Davide Cittaro
2008-01-21 20:19   ` Davide Cittaro

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