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Catach
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 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:29 am Post subject: BIG problems: AMD64 install |
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I gutted my old AthlonXP motherboard and CPU to install my new Athlon64. The install went quite well, which should have alerted me to a big problem coming, as i can never do anything without big problems arrising 
I try and compile something and I get what looks like Assembler errors. This was a stage 3 install, plus I saved a number of distfiles and a snapshot of my portage tree from my old AthlonXP motherboard before I gutted my PC and installed for Athlon64.
I'm using my own portage snapshot as (i knew would happen) my modem doesn't work (anyone know of ltmodem drivers for AMD64?). I didn't use genkernel either.
my compile flags are quite normal:
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
and i kept the CHOST flag as 'i686-pc...' (I tried changing it to 'x86_64-pc...' but that didn't do much. Although now i think about it, i compiled my
kernel under 'i686' could that be a big problem? Anyway I'd really love to get this solved.
gettext failed config with-
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* applying patches...
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checking for BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c
{standard input} : Assembler Messages:
{standard input} : 32 : Error : cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_64
*** the command 'gcc -o conftest -O -pipe conftest.c' failed.
*** you must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
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Plenty of other packages fail with the same results as above and along the lines of-
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{standard input} : ... : Error : suffix or opperands invalid for 'movq'
{standard input} : ... : Error : 'mystat (%rip)' is not a valid 32 bit base/index expression
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I'm certainly no expert, but it looks to me as it's having troubles with 32 bit instructions as opposed
to 64 bit instructions. I used gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 to build my kernel. Was there something in there
that i was supposed to set? i dont recall seeing anything about 32 emulation, in fact the menuconfig looked
exactly like the 2.4 kernels did, which i thought weird, since i'd experimented with development-sources-2.6
which had a different looking menuconfig.
I read so many successful installs for Athlon64 systems that i thought i might try it myself. I should get "if it aint broken, dont fix it" tattooed to my forehead . My productivity has really ground to a halt, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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gebner
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject: AMD64 install? |
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Did you install using AMD64 LiveCD + stages?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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yeah i used the amd64 livecds and used a stage 3 install since i only have a dialup connection (which is why i took my own portage snapshot a few weeks back). I reformatted and started again, as i couldn't even 'make menuconfig' to check my kernel. I'm waiting for the emulation sources to download so i can emerge them before i boot without the livecd, hoping that will help...
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Hmm, after my new install i can now compile things. If i think back hard it's possible i compiled the kernel and/or gcc with an old make.conf, that still had a CHOST of i686. we'll see how far we get this time 
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Gentoo on AMD64
