DEC Alpha support

Posted by: canuckInOR

DEC Alpha support - 02/05/2002 23:46

Hi all,

I just recently added a DEC Alpha (running Debian) to my home network. I'd like to be get emptool
compiled for it. I didn't have any luck just running make:

.../emptool> make
../../Make.rules:82: *** You have not defined a valid BUILD type. Stop.

I browsed through the makefiles for a while, but I'm not that much of a Makefile hacker. Anyone else
have this working on an Alpha (or are the original Makefile author) that could give suggestions?

Yeah, I know... JEmplode, but academic curiosity...

Cheers
Posted by: peter

Re: DEC Alpha support - 03/05/2002 02:46

or are the original Makefile author

Ahem. RTFM. You get that error on x86 too unless you do "make BUILD=car2 ARCH=pc emptool", as explained in README.srcrel. Unless there's something weirder going on.

This is however likely to be the least of your problems . Is your Alpha little-endian? What's sizeof(int)? sizeof(void*)? (Presumably sizeof(long) is 8)

Peter
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: DEC Alpha support - 05/05/2002 21:27

Ahem. RTFM.

Or, in my case, RTcorrectFM

ARCH=pc

I saw this in the Makefiles (commented out), but I wasn't sure if "pc" was being used as a non-descriptive term for x86, and if the alpha therefore didn't fall into this category...

Is your Alpha little-endian? What's sizeof(int)? sizeof(void*)? (Presumably sizeof(long) is 8)

Yes, 4, 8, and 8.

My reading skills are the pants. Thanks for the kick in the pants.