[M3devel] help booting CM3 on FreeBSD 4.11?

[Jay]

This /might/ help:
 
 
http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-boot-FreeBSD4-1-userthreads.tar.gz
 
 
Assuming there are a small number of problems though, the best ways to get more rapid turnaround are to do a cross build or at least first make sure userthreads work on more recent FreeBSD.
 
- Jay



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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: mika at async.caltech.edu; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> CC: mika at camembert.async.caltech.edu
> Subject: RE: [M3devel] help booting CM3 on FreeBSD 4.11?
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:40:41 +0000
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>> Would help if you had pthreads though.
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> IF you have a working-enough pthreads, no matter what library they are in, take a look at:
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> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-boot-FreeBSD4-1.tar.gz
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> It's a little gross -- one directory with LOTS of files.
> And a few subdirectories you don't need.
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> Be sure to look at the start of the Makefile and possibly adjust it.
> There are some *.sh files, redundant with the Makefile.
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> The output of this is just cm3.
> You can use that to then build up the system from the bottom of the dependeny tree and on up -- m3cc, m3core, libm3, etc. do-cm3-core.sh/do-cm3-core.py should do that.
> This is different than "upgrade", which uses an existing m3core/libm3.
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> This is how I do cross builds, both to existing systems and new systems.
> It has worked several times for me. Most often from a Cygwin host but maybe not always, and it isn't Cygwin specific.
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> If you really don't have a working pthreads, well, I'd just have to rebuild this with one edit...maybe I can do that quickly (it'll be -2 if so..), maybe it'll work...maybe...
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> - Jay