RE: Gentoo Alpha questions

"Donsbach, Jeff" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <E8C532D801BE5B479B28B626184E8CDD0546CDAD@tayexc14.americas.cpqcorp.net>
Marc Giger wrote:
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:14:27 -0500
Jean-Sébastien Guay <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Thanks for the answers. There are two other things I wanted to know...
>> 
>> 1. Did anyone with a milo-only machine (like my Alpha XL-366) have 
>> trouble booting from the LiveCD? I was never able to boot from the 
>> Debian installation CD, and had to start the installation from 
>> diskettes...
>
> Jeff? 

Yes, I believe I did have a problem with the LiveCD. It hung while loading ther kernel. I suspect that the kernel on the LiveCD was not built with the "lagacy_start_address" option needed for MILO machines. I'm not sure about that though. I also have not tried the new LiveCD image that Jay put up for download last week.

>> 
>> 2. Are there often problems compiling stuff like what Jeff talked 
>> about in his message? I would hate my server to be down for a day/week 
>> because some new version of an essential daemon (like exim, sshd,
>> apache) refused to compile.
>>
>I think you got a wrong impression. It's rather an exception that a package can not be compiled.
> ALL ebuilds which are marked stable are stable especially on alpha (mistakes happens).

The only package giving me problems so far is Samba. I had been trying 2.2.8a, the one currently marked stable. I tried both with and without USE="-cups". It didn't make a difference. I still got the include conflicts. I just tried Samba 3 and got the same thing during emerge -

Compiling dynconfig.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/vfs.h:4,
                 from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:14,
                 from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/include/sys/capability.h:35,
                 from include/includes.h:355,
                 from dynconfig.c:21:
/usr/include/asm/statfs.h:12: error: redefinition of `struct statfs'
make: *** [dynconfig.o] Error 1

!!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.2a failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 171, Exitcode 2
!!! SAMBA pieces

Jeff D

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