X windows failed to emerge on IBM RS/6000.

[pauly]

Hi all:)

I am new to gentoo. I have recently installed gentoo on an ibm rs/6000. (thanks!

I am having trouble emerging xorg-x11.

I have updated the portage tree a couple of times but the build still fails.
Seems to be some header memory.h that has problems.

Any ideas as to what to do / what this might be because of?

many thanks,
Paul.



!!! ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 failed.
and:
>>>
In file included from /usr/include/asm/memory.h:4,
from /usr/include/asm-ppc64/atomic.h:16,
from /usr/include/asm/atomic.h:8,
from /usr/include/asm-ppc64/processor.h:16,
from /usr/include/asm/processor.h:8,
from /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:15,
from /usr/include/linux/list.h:5,
from /usr/include/linux/wait.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/keyboard.h:20,
from xf86KbdLnx.c:168:
/usr/include/asm-ppc64/memory.h:26:34: macro "eieio" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0
In file included from /usr/include/asm/memory.h:4,
from /usr/include/asm-ppc64/atomic.h:16,
from /usr/include/asm/atomic.h:8,
from /usr/include/asm-ppc64/processor.h:16,
from /usr/include/asm/processor.h:8,
from /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:15,
from /usr/include/linux/list.h:5,
from /usr/include/linux/wait.h:21,
from /usr/include/linux/keyboard.h:20,
from xf86KbdLnx.c:168:
/usr/include/asm-ppc64/memory.h:27: error: syntax error before '{' token
>>>
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"Computers are like air conditioners.
Both stop working, if you open windows."

[fb]

Looks like a kernel headers problems of some kind. Can you post the output
of "emerge --info" please?
Oh and did you re-emerge glibc after linux-headers?

[pauly]

Hi fb,

thanks for your help/reply:).


ok. i have to own up to not building a kernel:)).

this may have caused problems. I did build one on the first install but I mucked it up some how
and it wouldn't boot. So on this install I have just used a copy of the kernel off the cd.

And no i have not re emerged glibc.
Frankly i wasn't sure what to do to emerge X windows at all on PPC64. I think I just
came across xorg-x11 from searching the net. If there is doco on how to get X going
on the PPC can someone please point to it for me?

At this stage I will:
emerge --info and post it.
emerge glibc
and possibly build if not also install a kernel.
possibly emerge linux headers ? not sure how to do this.

the machine is at home, so I will get back to this thread later.

many thanks,
Paul.
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"Computers are like air conditioners.
Both stop working, if you open windows."

[fb]

OK, copying the kernel shouldn't be a source of trouble.
I would imagine kernel headers would be pulled by glibc
otherwise just "emerge linux-headers" will do. Recompile
glibc and possibly gcc and binutils, you sometime have
strange stuff cropping up in the toolchain that may give
that kind of things.
If it is a rs/6000 specific problem I won't be much help as I don't
actually have this kind of system. It looks like you have a ppc64
kernel - however on gentoo-ppc I think we are stuck with 32bit
for the userland (the kernel being fully 64bit) some other people
like rangerpb would know more about this.