Recent changes to bugs

cross compiler instructions don't work for os x

Paul Twohey — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:25:21 -0000

The instructions for building a cross compiler do not
work for mac os x because gcc < 3.0.X does not build
properly for os x. My os x cross utils are gcc 3.3.2
configured as:

Reading specs from
/usr/local/mips/lib/gcc-lib/mips/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.2/configure --target=mips
--prefix=/usr/local/mips --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
--disable-threads --disable-shared --disable-nls
--enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3.2

and binutils 2.13.2.1 with --disable-nls

Don't build vmips.pdf if TeX not installed

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:18:42 -0000

In the CVS versions of VMIPS, if you try to
build without having TeX
installed, VMIPS will build OK up until the point where
it recurses into the doc/ subdirectory, at which point
you will get an error.

Instead of doing this, vmips should check for TeX
when configuring, and disable building the documentation
if it is not found.

This isn't a problem for released versions of VMIPS,
which are distributed along with fully-built copies
of the documentation.

The VMIPS environment variable is not documented

Paul Twohey — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:30:29 -0000

The options parsing code will look in the VMIPS environment
variable if it exists, but this behavior is not documented
anywhere.

setting -o configfile=FOO on the command line does not work

Paul Twohey — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:26:51 -0000

Setting the -o configfile=FOO where FOO is not ~/.vmipsrc
does not work. This is because the options parsing code
reads the configuration file before it processes the command
line arguements. I would submit a fix but the code is tricky
and there is an undocumented method to set options via the
VMIPS environment variable. I'm not sure how these should
all interact.

I think it would make the most sense if
1. options from the site configuration file were read
2. the environment variable VMIPS, and then the
command line are searched for a configfile option, if that
exists use it, otherwise use the default.
3. the configuration file is read and parsed
4. the remaining VMIPS environment variable options
are parsed
5. the remainind command line options are parsed.

Doing this will require changing process_options() so that it
resests the global variables getopt uses.

testsuite hangs with some .vmipsrc files on Mac OS X 10.3

Paul Twohey — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:23:34 -0000

If I use the attached .vmipsrc file then make check will hang
on mac os x. I'm using dejagnu-1.4.3 and the standard os x
utilities.

warning when configuring on Mac OS X 10.3

Paul Twohey — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:54:35 -0000

When I configure the latest vmips from CVS (Dec 22 19:48:
47 PST 2003) I get a warning about missing being too old:

Moble-Twohey:development/vmips % ./configure --
target=mips --with-mips=/usr/local/mips --prefix=/usr/
local/mips
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking target system type... mips-unknown-elf
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/Users/twohey/development/vmips/missing: Unknown `--
run' option
Try `/Users/twohey/development/vmips/missing --help' for
more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... no

[rest of configure omitted as it has no warnings]

I don't think this is important, but I thought I'd pass it along.

The To-Do link on the webpage is broken

Paul Twohey — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:11:01 -0000

I get a 404 error when I click on the To-Do link off the dgate
web page.

cannot build the latest vmips on Mac OS X 10.3

Paul Twohey — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:09:38 -0000

I cannot build the latest vmips from CVS (12/22/2003). After
the initial make fails and I try to make again I get the
following error:

Moble-Twohey:development/vmips % make
make all-recursive
Making all in .
Making all in sample_code
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in test_code
Making all in vmips.misc-tests
/bin/sh: line 1: CCASFLAGS@: command not found
make[3]: *** [clocker.o] Error 127
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I suspect it has
something to do with the the autoconf warnings I reported
earlier.

autoconf warnings while bootstraping on Mac OS X 10.3

Paul Twohey — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:52:43 -0000

When I try to bootstrap the latest vmips cvs snapshot (on
12/22/2003) on Mac OS X 10.3 I get the following warnings:

WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h',
`config.h.bot'
WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for
`config.h.in'
WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.

WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a
template without
WARNING: `acconfig.h':

WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
WARNING: [Define if a function `main' is needed.])

WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be
produced, see the
WARNING: documentation.

sb-print failing in byteswapped case

Brian R. Gaeke — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:19:34 -0000

vmips-1.1 is failing sb-print in byteswapped
configurations.
Duplicated on alpha->mips-elf and i686->mips-elf.