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[20180317]
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The adventure of rebuilding g4u from source
I was asked by a long-time
g4u user on help with rebuilding
g4u from sources. After pointing at the
instructions on the homepage,
we figured out that a few lose odds and ends didin't match.
After bouncing some advices back and forth, I ventured into the
frabjous joy of starting a rebuild from scratch, and quick enough
ran into some problems, too.
Usually I cross-compile g4u from Mac OS X, but for the fun of it
I did it on NetBSD (7.0-stable branch, amd64 architecture in VMware Fusion)
this time. After waiting forever on the CVS checkout, I found that
empty directories were not removed - that's what you get if you have -P in your ~/.cvsrc file.
I already had the hint that the "g4u-build" script needed a change to have
"G4U_BUILD_KERNEL=true".
From there, things went almost smooth: building indicated a few
files that popped up "variable may be used uninitialized" errors,
and which -- thanks to -Werror -- bombed out the build. Fixing
was easy, and I have no idea why that built for me on the release.
I have sent
a patch with the required changes
to the g4u-help mailing list. (After fixing that I apparently
got unsubscribed from my own support mailing list - thank you
very much, Sourceforge ;)).
After those little hassles, the build worked fine, and gave me
the floppy disk and ISO images that I expected:
> ls -l `pwd`/g4u*fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27 /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u1.fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27 /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u2.fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27 /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u3.fs
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 1474560 Mar 17 19:27 /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u4.fs
> ls -l `pwd`/g4u.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 2 feyrer staff 6567936 Mar 17 19:27 /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u.iso
> ls -l `pwd`/g4u-kernel.gz
> -rw-r?r-- 1 feyrer staff 6035680 Mar 17 19:27 /home/feyrer/work/NetBSD/cvs/src-g4u.v3-deOliviera/src/distrib/i386/g4u/g4u-kernel.gz
Next steps are to confirm the above changes as working
from my faithful tester, and then look into how to merge this
into the
build instructions .
[Tags: g4u]
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