Re: Build failure of gmp-6.2.0 on Mac Mini G4

On 5/26/20 6:00 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On 5/26/20 5:45 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 May 2020 15:27:46 -0700
>> Charlie Kester <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> (This is a copy of email sent to the port maintainer.  Re-sending to
>>> this list in case someone familiar with powerpc has already
>>> encountered and resolved this issue.)
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get FreeBSD running on an old Mac Mini and have hit a
>>> snag with this port, which is a dependency of many others.
>>>
>>> The configure step fails with the following output (I don't have mail
>>> running on the mini yet and am typing this on another machine,
>>> so please disregard any typos.  blank lines = line breaks in output):
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> ===> gmp-6.2.0 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/makeinfo - found
>>>
>>> ===> Configuring for gmp-6.2.0
>>>
>>> checking build system type... invalid configuration
>>> 'powerpc7447-unknown-freebsd12.1': machine 'powerpc7447-unknown' not
>>> recognized
>>>
>>> configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub
>>> powerpc7447-unknown-freebsd12.1 failed
>>>
>>> etc.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> I tried
>>> # make configure CONFIGURE_ARGS=--build=powerpc7447
>>> and
>>> # make configure CONFIGURE_TARGET=powerpc7447
>>>
>>> Neither worked.  Same failure.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how I can resolve this issue?
>>
>> Where do you get powerpc7447?  The arch is 'powerpc', and you shouldn't
>> need to set anything for the port. If you want to customize for your
>> specific CPU, add the following to /etc/make.conf:
>>
>> CPUTYPE=7450
>>
> 
> I got it from the error message above.  ;-)
> 
> This is a vanilla install using the ISO CD image downloaded yesterday
> and installed, followed by a portsnap fetch and portsnap extract.
> I haven't made any edits to /etc/make.conf or changed any other 
> settings.  Expected it to work "out of the box" but for some reason it 
> doesn't.
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that the 7447 came as a result of the kernel
> reading the PVR at some point?  Or is this due to the gmp port's own
> attempt to get the processor version in config.guess?  How can I confirm 
> which of 7447 or 7450 is correct?

sysctl reports hw.model as "Motorola PowerPC 7447A"

So I tried adding CPUTYPE=7447 to /etc/make.conf

cd /usr/ports/math/gmp
make distclean
make install clean

Same failure as above ("invalid configuration")

  -- charlie

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