[comp.os.386bsd] BNR/2 derived BSD for PCs FAQ (Part 10 of 10)
Dave Burgess
Archive-name: 386bsd-faq/part10
Section 9 ("Supported" Software List).
#9.1 Software known to run under 386BSD
#9.2 List whether patches are needed
#9.3 List version/release of program
#9.4 List who is supporting it if anyone
#9.5 List where you can get it
9.0 What GNU software has been tested and is working with Net/2 derived
BSD systems for the 386?
Just about all of it.
9.1 Has anyone ever gotten news to work?
news running on 386bsd. Here is a quick summary of the major
places to stumble:
1) get bash, gmake, gcc 2.X, cnews, trn (or your favorite reader).
2) Make uucp work. (Read the info files that come with the
original distribution for the whole scoop on configuration
files.)
Ed Note: This step is not needed if you are imeplementing SLIP or
are directly connected to a network.
3) Edit all the scripts which come with cnews and replace every
occurence of /bin/sh with /usr/local/bin/bash (or wherever you put
it).
4) Build cnews using bash, gmake and gcc 2.x
5) Install cnews in the directories you want it. Some hand-hacking
of the intall scripts is required (Too long ago to remember the
details).
6) Change the permissions on all the scripts from execute only to
read-execute for group and other. (On 386bsd, if you can't read
a script, you can't execute it).
7) Set up uucp to accept news
8) Post an article and steal it out of the uucp queue before it
gets sent. Feed it to your rnews (as user uucp) instead and make
sure that it does not bomb out with permission denied or some such.
9) Have fun!
Implementing innd is even easier. The configure script that comes
with the system has been modified to work more correctly with
Net/2 derived BSD systems. There are rumors of problems with
'lint', but these are easiest to find if you just run the configure
script and let the system find the errors. This patch file gives
an example of the types of changes that need to be made.
Ed Note: This patch is reversed. The first block in each
section is the way your Makefile should look.
*** /usr/src/local/innd-1.4-dist/Makefile Mon Jun 14 11:01:35 1993
--- /usr/src/local/innd-1.4-dist/Makefile.orig Mon Jun 14 10:54:25 1993
***************
*** 35,46 ****
$(SHELL) ./makedirs.sh
## Other generic targets.
! depend tags ctags profiled:
@$(MAKE) $(FLAGS) WHAT_TO_MAKE=$@ common
clean:
@$(MAKE) $(FLAGS) WHAT_TO_MAKE=$@ common
! rm -f libinn.a libinn_p.a FILELIST
## Common target.
common:
--- 35,46 ----
$(SHELL) ./makedirs.sh
## Other generic targets.
! lint depend tags ctags profiled:
@$(MAKE) $(FLAGS) WHAT_TO_MAKE=$@ common
clean:
@$(MAKE) $(FLAGS) WHAT_TO_MAKE=$@ common
! rm -f libinn.a libinn_p.a llib-linn.ln FILELIST
## Common target.
common:
***************
*** 87,96 ****
-cd syslog; $(CC) -o syslogd syslogd.c ; cd ..
@echo "Install syslogd and syslog.conf as appropriate"
! ## Configure, compile.
world: Install.ms
cd config ; $(MAKE) $(FLAGS) subst quiet ; cd ..
cd lib ; $(MAKE) $(FLAGS) install ; cd ..
## Make a distribution.
shar:
--- 87,99 ----
-cd syslog; $(CC) -o syslogd syslogd.c ; cd ..
@echo "Install syslogd and syslog.conf as appropriate"
! ## Configure, compile, and lint.
world: Install.ms
cd config ; $(MAKE) $(FLAGS) subst quiet ; cd ..
+ cd lib ; $(MAKE) $(FLAGS) lint ; cd ..
+ cat lib/lint
cd lib ; $(MAKE) $(FLAGS) install ; cd ..
+ $(MAKE) $(FLAGS) lint
## Make a distribution.
shar:
Simple as that :-)
9.2 How did you get emacs to compile?
The problem is in the dump-emacs function. It writes the image
header and then the text section of the image overwrites the
header. This leaves you with a bad image. If you try to load it
into gdb, it will tell you that it is not an executable.
What to do?
Look back at your configuration command:
>% configure i386-intel-386bsd --with-x=no
The 386bsd qualifier means that the compiles will include the file
src/s/386bsd.h. If you go into this file and add the lines:
#define A_TEXT_OFFSET(x) (sizeof (struct exec))
#define A_TEXT_SEEK(hdr) (N_TXTOFF(hdr) + A_TEXT_OFFSET(hdr))
This tells the subroutines in src/unexec.c about the 32 byte image
header, so that they will set up the header appropriately and not step
on it while writing the emacs executable.
The second problem is that emacs tries use its own crt0.o file.
Kill that line in the Makefile and you should be able to compile
for either static or shared library operations.
9.2 Has anyone tried to get Postgres to work?
Jim Bachesta and his crew have gotten Postgres 4.2 working in
the i386 version of NetBSD 1.0. The netbsd source tree is
available from:
ftp://charon.amdahl.com:pub/agc/postgres-4.2-src-netbsd-v2.tar.gz
The regular postgres distribution is available from:
ftp://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:pub/postgres
Get the standard distribution and then overlay the NetBSD source
distribution over it for a complete system.
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