Subject: Re: Trouble with Mkfs
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Jacob Savin <jesavin@earthlink.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/08/1996 13:30:55
At 10:10 AM 05/08/96, "The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]"
<davagatw@mars.utm.edu wrote:
>An FPU: you'll want to replace your math libraries with the FPU-less
>libraries before you start compiling anything, and some binaries that
>require FPUs may fail, so get the source and recompile with the FPU-less
>libs if something gives a floating point exception errror.  Other than
>that, floating point emulation is working fine for me so far.

That's cool. Now, what's the best place to get the FPU-less math libs?

>24 bit....  Did you have virtual memory on?  Have you tried with it on?
>Just curious.  DL a short tar.gz file and run the installer and tell it to
>install it in 32-bit with virtual on.  The system may behave differently.

I've tried it both ways. VM doesn't seem to make any difference. (FYI, I
had tried the installer with my standard extension set and with *no*
extensions - not even Apple's, so VM had to be off.) The 32-bit addressing
was the only thing that made a difference.

I'm just gonna throw out a guess here but it seems like the 7.5.3 thing
must be what's making the installer puke. Maybe if I had the source for the
installer I could try to re-compile it using CodeWarrior 8. It's supposed
to be smart enough to avoid most conflicts with 7.5.3 and its related
extensions (i.e. it's got very up-to-date Apple libs). Dunno if that would
help or not but it might be worth a try.


-Jake

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