[Gcl-devel] GCL on Zaurus SL-6000 under Debian

[Bill Page]

Camm,

See the GOOD NEWS below.

On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:12 PM you wrote:
> 
> Greetings!  Great to see your looking into this!
> 
> This has got to be a libc version dependency issue.  The
> author of http://pocketworkstation.org/ appears to be
> putting together his own Debian snapshots.  But if you
> apt-get upgrade to the standard Debian distribution, all
> that should be taken care of.

I did the 'apt-get upgrade', unfortunately I still get
immediate seg faults from both Axiom and GCL.

> Perhaps you could send your /etc/apt/sources.list, and
> 'dpkg -l |grep libc'.

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca/debian testing main
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
deb http://nonUS.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main
deb-src http://debian.mirror.cygnal.ca/debian testing main
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

# dpkg -l |grep libc
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries ...
ii  libc6-dev      2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Development Libraries
ii  libcap1        1.10-14        support for getting/setting POSIX
ii  libcomerr2     1.35-6         The Common Error Description library
ii  libcompfaceg1  1989.11.11-24  Compress/decompress images
ii  libcurl2       7.11.2-8       Multi-protocol file transfer library
ii  libdb1-compat  2.1.3-7        The Berkeley database routines
ii  liblocale-gett 1.01-17        Using libc functions for inter...

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As per Bob McElrath's message,

> alpha architecture:
>  ii  libc6.1   2.3.2.ds1-11    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> axiom segfaults
>  ii  libc6.1   2.3.2.ds1-16    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> axiom runs fine
> 
> i386 architecture:
>  ii  libc6     2.3.2.ds1-12    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> axiom runs fine
> 
> Thus, it would appear that the debian package needs to add a
> dependency on libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 or greater.  I do not know
> why on alpha it is "libc6.1" and on intel it is "libc6".  

If what I am seeing is the same seg fault, then it seems
very sensitive to the libc6 version and libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16
may also not work for arm on Zaurus with the debian arm
build of GCL.

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But the GOOD NEWS is that I did manange to build GCL from the
2.6.5 tarball from the Axiom CVS! First I did

# apt-get build-dep gcl
# tar xzvf axiom/zips/gcl-2.6.5.tgz
# cd gcl-2.6.5
# ./configure --enable-vssize=65536*1 --disable-statsysbfd \
  --enable-locbfd --enable-maxpage=32*1024

Note use of locbfd and smaller memory parameters then currently
specified in the Axiom build:

# ./configure --enable-vssize=65536*4 --enable-statsysbfd \
  --enable-maxpage=128*1024

which gave "Can't allocate" message when first trying to run
raw_pre_gcl. I got the same result with the default ./configure.
But using --enable-locbfd did the trick and it is now working
fine. I am not sure how much bigger I can practically make the
memory options, but I think parameters might be too large.
Can you tell how large they can be set based on the output
of 'free' below?

So, anyway I am now running an Axiom build with 

# ./configure --enable-vssize=65536*2 --disable-statsysbfd \
  --enable-locbfd --enable-maxpage=64*1024

I will let you know how (if) it finishes some time tomorrow.

Regards,
Bill Page.

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Build log with Axiom gcl configure options:

...
touch bfdfiles
rm -rf libpre_gcl.a
ar rs libpre_gcl.a ../o/alloc.o ../o/array.o ../o/assignment.o ../o/backq.o
../o
/bds.o ../o/big.o ../o/bind.o ../o/bitop.o ../o/block.o ../o/catch.o
../o/cfun.o
 ../o/character.o ../o/clxsocket.o ../o/cmpaux.o ../o/conditional.o
../o/earith.
o ../o/error.o ../o/eval.o ../o/fat_string.o ../o/file.o ../o/format.o
../o/fram
e.o ../o/funlink.o ../o/gbc.o ../o/gcl_readline.o ../o/gmp_wrappers.o
../o/hash.
o ../o/init_pari.o ../o/iteration.o ../o/let.o ../o/lex.o ../o/list.o
../o/macro
s.o ../o/main.o ../o/makefun.o ../o/mapfun.o ../o/multival.o ../o/new_init.o
../
o/nfunlink.o ../o/nsocket.o ../o/num_arith.o ../o/num_co.o ../o/num_comp.o
../o/
num_log.o ../o/num_pred.o ../o/num_rand.o ../o/num_sfun.o ../o/number.o
../o/pac
kage.o ../o/pathname.o ../o/plt.o ../o/predicate.o ../o/print.o ../o/prog.o
../o
/read.o ../o/reference.o ../o/regexpr.o ../o/run_process.o ../o/sequence.o
../o/
sfasl.o ../o/sockets.o ../o/string.o ../o/structure.o ../o/symbol.o
../o/topleve
l.o ../o/typespec.o ../o/unixfasl.o ../o/unixfsys.o ../o/unixsave.o
../o/unixsys
.o ../o/unixtime.o ../o/usig.o ../o/usig2.o ../o/utils.o sys_pre_gcl.o
ar: creating libpre_gcl.a
cp ../o/gcllib.a libgclp.a
ranlib libgclp.a
cp init_pre_gcl.lsp.in init_pre_gcl.lsp.tmp
touch raw_pre_gcl_map
gcc -o raw_pre_gcl /root/axiom/obj/linux/lib/cfuns-c.o
/root/axiom/obj/linux/lib
/sockio-c.o \
        -L.  -Wl,-Map raw_pre_gcl_map   -lpre_gcl -lm  -lgmp
/usr/lib/libbfd.a /
usr/lib/libiberty.a -lreadline -lncurses -lc -lgclp
/root/axiom/obj/linux/lib/li
bspad.a
cat init_pre_gcl.lsp.tmp | sed \
        -e "address@hidden@#(`cat ../majvers`.`cat ../minvers`) `date`#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#`cat ../minvers | cut -f2 -d.`#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#`cat ../minvers | cut -f1 -d.`#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#`cat ../majvers`#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#\"gcc -c -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char -pipe
-mlong-c
alls \"#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#\"gcc -o \"#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#\"   -lpre_gcl -lm  -lgmp /usr/lib/libbfd.a
/usr/lib/
libiberty.a -lreadline -lncurses -lc -lgclp
/root/axiom/obj/linux/lib/libspad.a
\"#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#\"-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer\"#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#\"-O\"#1" \
        -e "address@hidden@#\"init_pre_gcl.lsp\"#1" >init_pre_gcl.lsp
cp init_pre_gcl.lsp foo
echo " (in-package \"USER\")(system:save-system \"saved_pre_gcl\")" >>foo
/root/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.5/unixport/raw_pre_gcl
/root/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.5/unixpor
t/ -libdir /root/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.5/ < foo

Unrecoverable error: Can't allocate.  Good-bye!.
make[4]: *** [saved_pre_gcl] Error 134
rm raw_pre_gcl init_pre_gcl.lsp
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.5/unixport'
make[3]: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.5'
/bin/sh: line 1: unixport/saved_gcl: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [gcldir] Error 127
make[1]: *** [lspdir] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/axiom/lsp'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/axiom'


/root/axiom# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         62048      46756      15292          0       1116      30632
-/+ buffers/cache:      15008      47040
Swap:            0          0          0


/root/axiom# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id
wa
 1  0      0  15264   1120  30652    0    0     6    71   51    19 12 41 47
0


/root/axiom# ps -A
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:16 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 keventd
    3 ?        00:06:32 kapm-idled
    4 ?        00:00:00 off_thread
    5 ?        00:00:00 battchrgon
    6 ?        00:00:00 battchrgoff
    7 ?        00:03:06 sharpsl_bat
    8 ?        00:00:00 fatalchk
    9 ?        00:00:00 jacketchk
   10 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
   11 ?        00:00:08 kswapd
   12 ?        00:00:00 bdflush
   13 ?        00:00:00 kupdated
   14 ?        00:00:00 buzzer
   15 ?        00:00:00 swapper
   16 ?        00:00:00 swapper
   17 ?        00:00:00 mtdblockd
   45 ?        00:00:00 jffs2_gcd_mtd3
   91 ?        00:00:00 khubd
  123 ?        00:00:00 sdmgr
  160 ?        00:00:00 cardmgr
  171 ?        00:00:00 inetd
  181 ?        00:00:00 atd
  215 ?        00:00:02 sh
  216 ?        00:01:14 shsync
  224 ?        00:00:00 zdebian
  227 ?        00:00:00 zdebian
  270 ?        00:00:00 dhcpd
  273 ?        00:00:02 sshd
  274 ?        00:00:00 sh
  279 ?        00:00:00 sh
 4093 ?        00:00:00 ps
/root/axiom#