Re: Disk errors on PowerBook 180

[luRaichu <luraichu%protonmail.com@localhost>]

On Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 at 4:58 PM, Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost> wrote:

> >tinyx-wscons for mac68k architecture is not available from pkgsrc?
>
> For the moment there are no pakages for tinyx-wscons for mac68k, you can cross compile a package for it though using the compiler tools from a mac68k release build of NetBSD.
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> I've found when cross compiling packages it is necessary to replace the buildlink libs from the package build directory with the ones from a mac68k release (/usr/X11/libs) otherwize linking the cross compiled package fails.
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> For my setup I unpack pkgsrc sources to a directory.
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> Build a mac68k release with the stock X11.
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> and change to the packages directory ie /home/admin/pkgsrc/x11/tinyx-wscons
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> run USE_CROSS_COMPILE=yes make package-install.
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> I have the following in my /etc/mk.conf:
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> .if !empty(USE_CROSS_COMPILE:M[yY][eE][sS])
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> # Point pkgsrc at the NetBSD tooldir and destdir for cross builds.
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> CROSS_MACHINE_ARCH=m68k
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> CROSSBASE= ${LOCALBASE}/cross-${TARGET_ARCH:U${MACHINE_ARCH:S/m68ksf/m68k/}}
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> TOOLDIR= /home/admin/mac68k-softfloat/tooldir.NetBSD-11.99.1-amd64/
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> CROSS_DESTDIR= /home/admin/mac68k-softfloat/destdir.mac68k
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> # Specify the machine architecture of target packages.
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> # Specify the OS of target packages.
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> CROSS_OPSYS= NetBSD
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> CROSS_OS_VERSION= 10.0
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> CROSS_OPSYS_VERSION= 100000
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> CROSS_LOWER_OPSYS= netbsd
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> CROSS_LOWER_OPSYS_VERSUFFIX= # empty
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> CROSS_LOWER_OS_VARIANT= # empty
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> CROSS_LOWER_VARIANT_VERSION= # empty
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> CROSS_LOWER_VENDOR= # empty
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> CROSS_OBJECT_FMT= ELF
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> PKGSRC_USE_SSP= no
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> PKGSRC_USE_STACK_CHECK?= no
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> .endif
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> My mac68k tool directory is the one from the mac68k release I built in /home/admin/mac68k-softfloat (as I built a softfloat relase for my powerbooks - its a bit faster).
>
> The compilation runs until it errors with linking and displays unknown arch for libraries.
>
> So I change to the package/tiny-wscons/work.NetBSD.m68k work directory and remove buildlink/libs/* and copy from my NetBSD-mac68k release directory mac68k-softfloat/destdir.mac68k/usr/X11R7/libs/* to buildlink/libs same for any dependent libraries in mac68k-softfloat/destdir.mac68k/usr/pkg/lib/* to buildlink/libs/ and rerun USE_CROSS_COMPILE=yes make package-install
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> There will be a package in pkgsrc/packages.m68k/All which you can then install on the macintosh.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nat

Could you please be kind enough to share your build of tinyx-wscons?