Subj : Ticket #9 - Compilation issues on weird platforms..
To : Sampsa Laine
From : Vince Coen
Date : Mon Oct 31 2016 01:52 am
Hello Sampsa!
Saturday October 29 2016 22:35, you wrote to All:
It has been passed to me but my programming intray is still reasonably
moderate
to heavy so have not got around to it.
That said I am aware that it does not like CPU's other than the basic and nor
for that matter platforms.
In my odd moments have been playing around to get it to work-ish on OSX 10.11
El Capitain) but with minimal effect.
Had to go back to sorting out the code for ACAS for which I have a target for
end of the year.
How many CPU's are you running and with what architecture?
Vince
> Hi Guys,
> Not sure if you guys still read this echo but I'm running MBSE 1.0.6
> and I can across a few some minor inconveniences in the compilation
> process, mainly that if it doesn't recognise the CPU it naturally
> doesn't know to call it and what the signal names on that platform
> are.
> So I would say the problems fall under two show-stopping categories:
> II. Unnecessary(?) #error's if the CPU is "not one of the above"
> In a number of places, the code does a #ifdef to determne the CPU type
> and whilst I'm impressed by the number of platform supported IBM S/390
> and/or z/Series aren't represented (not that I'm surprised, I'm
> probably the only person in the world running MBSE on any kind of
> zLinux.
> Anyway instead of #error'ing out of the whole compile, I changed the
> bits which are CPU sensitive to instead throw a #warn "Unknown CPU,
> assuming IBM S/390" [of course this should probablysay some
> differnet].
> So from lib/strutil.c:399:2: error: #error "Unknown CPU" I do:
> File: lib/strutil.c, starting at line 398>
> 398: #else
> 399: #warning "Unknown CPU - defaulting to IBM S/390"
> 400: return (char *)"IBM S/390";
> 401: #endif
> 402: }
> (I just used the signal name array for x86, not ideal but I really
> didn't have the time to look up the exact Debian/s390x versions - this
> shouldn't be too strenuous)
> Conclusion
> ----------
> On the plus side, I've been running MBSE 1.0.6 on Debian/s390x for
> months at a time without a problem, so nothing too vital seems to be
> broken.
> I would however suggest that you look into those void*<->int casts
> because that could break on other platforms as well..
Vince
--- Mageia Linux v5/Mbse v1.0.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
* Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)
