Re: custom kernel problems

[Andreas Wolf <aw%seqlab.de@localhost>]

Am 28. Apr .2008 um 12:40 Uhr schrieb Izumi Tsutsui:

> > I'm lost. Frustrated, too.
> > Where shall I start?
>
> First, what do you want to do?

From my personal, naive view? Take the sources from a stable kernel 
tree, make a few changes (like 68040 optimization, removing SCSI 
support) to obtain a smaller, maybe faster kernel that is prepared for 
directly netbooting from its internal ethernet interface. Nothing 
fancy, no bleeding edge. As it comes from a stable branch (I took the 
NetBSD 3.1 tarball), I expected it to work vanilla. I took the 3.1 
sources because I am compiling it on another Quadra with 3.0.1 on it. 
There is no NetBSD 3.0 branch on the server as far as I can see, just 
3.0.2 and 3.1.


> Trying current?
> -> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/current/index.html
>    (for example, you can't use config(1) in 4.0 to build -current 
> binaries)

O.k., I wasn't aware of that.

> Making your own config work on 4.0?
> -> apply diff of autoconf.c between rev 1.66 and 1.67
>    to your 4.0 source tree
>
> > What exactly means "current". Is it NetBSD4 plus
> > all changes/improvements/bug-fixes? Would I have to supplement it with
> > other source-files?
> http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/release-map.html

Hm, either I didn't understand it, or the the graph doesn't exactly 
represent what's on the server. As I said, there are no 3-0 or 3 
branches on the server., at least not on 
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/
Anyway, I started from scratch, took my newly NetBSD 4.0 equipped 
Quadra and the 4.0 sources (sys.tar.gz), applied the patch to 
autoconf.c (manually), and got -- new errors. Apparently there are 
dependencies in 4.0 to further source files not included in the sys 
part. So I added some more sources and finally succeeded to produce my 
custom kernel. I'm psyched. Happy, too :-)

Well, having said that, I'm out for further "adventures" and facing new 
problems. I urgently need pico (I just can't cope with vi), bash and a 
few others. No prob, I have done this before with NetBSD 3.0.1. Now, 
taking the pkgsrc-2008Q1 tarball yields in these errors:

=> Registering installation for pkg_install-20080313
=> Bootstrap dependency pkg_install>=20070813: found 
pkg_install-20080313
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: NOT found
=> Verifying reinstall for ../../pkgtools/digest
=> Bootstrap dependency pkg_install>=20070813: found 
pkg_install-20080313
ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
ERROR: Unable to satisfy dependency: gcc34>=4.1.2
*** Error code 1

I'm confused, 20070813 would probably correspond to 2007Q3, which is 
not available in ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages-2007Q3/. Instead 
the README states that it is supposed to be in 
../packages/NetBSD/$ARCH/$VERSIONS. If I follow that, I see only a 
3.0_2006Q1/ and a 3.0/ path.
And what abou the digest dependency, 20010302 ?
Which pkgsrc version do I have to take for NetBSD 4.0?

Andreas