We don’t want to die … and having the Easter feast recently I wanted to bring from the dead the OSF1 Tru64 5.1B Unix once again.
Another thing that I have brought from the dead is my old Twitter account @ https://twitter.com/astr0baby
This took me a while to find out exact steps so I decided to share my experiment with others if needed. Quoting one of the greatest thinkers and philosophers of the 11th Century AD
Some samples from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Who knows the meaning of a grain of sand
Knows the whole meaning of the sea and land,
And simple One by thousands multipliedg
Is no more difficult to understand.
When, with wild joys and sorrows broken quite,
I face the morning of the endless night,
Still shall I call for wine, and still for thee,
And Pleasure close the eyes she once kept bright.
The following steps should work on a real Alpha system running Tru64, but since I dont have the hardware, all my experiments are done via alphavm_free emulator
Some additional information on how to setup/install Tru64 on alphavm_free is here
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/running-tru64-unix-inside-a-vm-for-metasploit-testing/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/setting-up-x11-on-tru64-vm-via-vnc/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/unix-os-archaeology-tru64-unix-part-2/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/marrakech-express-has-arrived-to-tru64/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/tru64-unix-v5-1-metasploit-payloads-pt-2/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/unix-os-archaeology-digital-unix-osf1-v4-0-1091-alpha/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/all-tru64-unix-5-1e-licenses/
Lets presume we all know how to run Tru64 in alphavm or on real hardware.
Pre-requisites:
- Make sure you use a large enough disk for GCC 4.4.7 compilation (16 Gigs )
- Make sure you use a relatively new gnu tar !
- Remove any obsolete gtar
- (remove any gtar package that you might have)
- ccc Compaq C Compiler (Compaq C for Tru64 UNIX Version 5.1A or higher)
# rpm -e gtar # mkdir /data/ # cd /data/ # wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.23.tar.gz # gunzip tar-1.23.tar.gz # tar -xvf tar-1.23.tar # cd tar-1.23 # env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure # make # make install
GCC 4.8 > does not support Tru64 anymore … GCC 4.7 only with –enable-legacy configure script … so stick to something older :) We will choose GCC 4.4.7 from 2012 GCC needs libiconv to build.
Download libiconv
# cd /data # wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz # gunzip libiconv-1.8.tar.gz # /usr/local/bin/tar -xvf libiconv-1.8.tar # cd libiconv-1.8 # env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure # make # make install
Download GCC
# cd /data # wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.4.7/gcc-4.4.7.tar.gz # gunzip gcc-4.4.7.tar.gz # /usr/local/bin/tar -xvf gcc-4.4.7.tar.gz # mv /data/gcc-4.4.7 /data/gcc-new # cd /data/gcc-new #./configure --prefix=/data/gcc-new --enable-threads=posix --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local - error needs gmp
Download gmp
# cd /data # wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.0.5.tar.bz2 # bunzip2 gmp-5.0.5.tar.bz2 # /usr/local/bin/tar -xvf gmp-5.0.5.tar # cd gmp-5.0.5 # env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure # make # make install # make install-data-hook
Go back to build gcc-new
# cd /data/gcc-new #./configure --prefix=/data/gcc-new --enable-threads=posix --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local --with-gmp=/usr/local checking for correct version of mpfr.h... no (MPFR 2.3.2+.) -error needs mpfr
Download mpfr
# cd /data # wget http://mpfr.loria.fr/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2.tar.gz # gunzip mpfr-2.4.2.tar.gz # /usr/local/bin/tar -xvf mpfr-2.4.2.tar # cd mpfr-2.4.2 # env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure # make # make install
Go back to build gcc-new
# cd /data/gcc-new # ./configure --prefix=/data/gcc-new --enable-threads=posix --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local # make Makefile:27: *** GNU make version 3.80 or newer is required.. Stop. - error need gmake 3.8 >
Remove the obsolete gmake-3.79 rpm package
# rpm -e gmake
Download gnu make
# cd /data # wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.gz # gunzip make-3.80.tar.gz # /usr/local/bin/tar -xvf make-3.80.tar # cd make-3.80 # env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure # make # make install
Go back to build gcc-new
# cd /data/gcc-new # /usr/local/bin/make ------<cut>------- e-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wcast-qual -Wold-style-definition -Wc++-compat -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.././gcc -I../.././gcc/. -I../.././gcc/../include -I../.././gcc/../libcpp/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber -I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber/dpd -I../libdecnumber -I/usr/local/include ../.././gcc/c-common.c -o c-common.o swap space below 10 percent free cc1: out of memory allocating 8016 bytes after a total of 129394960 bytes make[3]: *** [c-common.o] Error 1
Seems we are out of memory …. :(
I had little swap (256 MB) so I decided to add more just in case (power off the simulator)
# shutdown -h now
Create a new disk 2GB on the linux host to have dedicated 2 GB swap for Tru64
linux$ dd if=/dev/zero of=swap.dd bs=1024 count=2M
Add the new disk config to config.emu
scsi_disk dka2 {
scsi_bus = 0;
scsi_id = 3;
scsi_lun = 0;
file = 'swap.dd';
caching = no;
write_through = yes;
}
Boot Tru64, once inside
# hwmgr -show scsi # disklabel -rw dsk3c # disklabel -r dsk3c # /dev/rdisk/dsk3c: # vi /etc/sysconfigtab Search for /dev/disk/dsk0b and add the following to it swapdevice = /dev/disk/dsk0b,/dev/disk/dsk3c # swapon -a
Check the memory Physical RAM:
# /bin/vmstat -P grep "Total Physical Memory"
Swap Space:
# /sbin/swapon -s Swap partition /dev/disk/dsk0b (default swap): Allocated space: 35098 pages (274MB) In-use space: 1 pages ( 0%) Free space: 35097 pages ( 99%) Swap partition /dev/disk/dsk4c: Allocated space: 262144 pages (2.00GB) In-use space: 1 pages ( 0%) Free space: 262143 pages ( 99%) Total swap allocation: Allocated space: 297242 pages (2.27GB) Reserved space: 8214 pages ( 2%) In-use space: 2 pages ( 0%) Available space: 289028 pages ( 97%) # ulimit -Sd unlimited
Go back to build gcc-new
# cd /data/gcc-new # /usr/local/bin/make .....<cut>....... e-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wcast-qual -Wold-style-definition -Wc++-compat -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.././gcc -I../.././gcc/. -I../.././gcc/../include -I../.././gcc/../libcpp/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber -I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber/dpd -I../libdecnumber -I/usr/local/include ../.././gcc/c-common.c -o c-common.o swap space below 10 percent free cc1: out of memory allocating 8016 bytes after a total of 129394960 bytes make[3]: *** [c-common.o] Error 1
Check the limits
# ulimit -d 131072 # ulimit -d unlimited # ulimit -d 131072 # ulimit -d 500000 # ulimit -d 131072 # sysconfig -q proc | grep per_proc_data_size per_proc_data_size = 134217728
Read https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B13866_04/wp.904/b15607/tru64.htm
Set the following values to /etc/sysconfigtab
proc: per_proc_stack_size = 33554432 per_proc_data_size = 801326592
Reboot and check
# ulimit -d 782546
Continue with the build process for gcc 4.4.7
# cd /data/gcc-new # /usr/local/bin/make # /usr/local/bin/make install
Check the gcc version
# /data/gcc-new/bin/gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: alphaev67-dec-osf5.1b Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/data/gcc-new --enable-threads=posix --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.7 (GCC)
