So after we have a usable GCC for Tru64 we can move on to put it to some good use. I prefer pkgsrc.
pkgsrc (package source) is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems. It was forked from the FreeBSD ports collection in 1997 as the primary package management system for NetBSD.
There is a nice guide already on https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_use_pkgsrc_on_osf1/ which describes how to bootstrap pkgsrc via gcc or ccc.
You can even download the precompiled GCC 4.3.2 for OSF1 here http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/misc/tnn/ but if you want newer GCC you need to compile it yourself (I did not find any newer compiled packages) https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/compiling-gcc-4-4-7-on-tru64-5-1b/ GCC dropped support for Tru64 in 4.8 and in 4.7 you need to enable the –enable-legacy flag to build it.
Not surprisingly the 2016Q4 or the 2017Q1 pkgsrc have issues on TRU64 and GCC 4.4.7 and 4.3.2. The bootstrap compilation is broken and throws similar errors
# cd /pkgsrc/bootstrap # env CC=/data/gcc-new/bin/gcc CFLAGS=-O2 ./bootstrap.sh ....<cut>..... /data/gcc432/bin/gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/missing -DMAKE_NATIVE -DUSE_META -DBMAKE_PATH_MAX=1023 -DMAKE_VERSION="20150505" -DMACHINE="alpha" -DPKGSRC_MACHINE_ARCH="" -D_PATH_DEFSYSPATH="/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/share/mk" -o main.o /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c: In function 'Error': /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c:1677: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '__builtin_va_start' /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c:1677: error: 'va_start' used with too many arguments /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c: In function 'Fatal': /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c:1706: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '__builtin_va_start' /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c:1706: error: 'va_start' used with too many arguments /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c: In function 'Punt': /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c:1741: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '__builtin_va_start' /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/main.c:1741: error: 'va_start' used with too many arguments ===> exited with status 1 aborted.
No luck with the native ccc compiler as well
# cd /pkgsrc/bootstrap # env CC=/usr/bin/cc ./bootstrap ...<cut>..... checking whether INTMAX_MAX is declared... no checking whether INTMAX_MIN is declared... no checking whether UINTMAX_MAX is declared... no checking whether SSIZE_MAX is declared... yes checking whether EFTYPE is declared... yes checking whether EILSEQ is declared... yes checking for wchar_t... yes checking size of wchar_t... configure: error: in `/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/libarchive': configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (wchar_t) See `config.log' for more details ===> exited with status 77
29.04.2017 – update The above failures are probably related to libarchive https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/728
So I was searching for some older pkgsrc tarball which would have a buildable bootstrap and came up with this archive:
https://asw.iastate.edu/pub/pkgsrc/current/
https://asw.iastate.edu/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc.tgz
Download the above pkgsrc current snapshot from 2014-05-18, extract it and run the bootstrap as follows. You might think that the packages will be obsolete from 2014 …but we are running an OS that is dead and unsupported anyway :)
# cd /pkgsrc/bootstrap # env CC=/data/gcc-new/bin/gcc CXX=/data/gcc-new/bin/g++ CFLAGS=-O2 ./bootstrap .....<cut>....... => Registering installation for pkg_install-20130902nb1 ===> running: /sbin/sh /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bin/install-sh -d -o root -g system /usr/pkg/etc =========================================================================== Please remember to add /usr/pkg/bin to your PATH environment variable and /usr/pkg/man to your MANPATH environment variable, if necessary. An example mk.conf file with the settings you provided to "bootstrap" has been created for you. It can be found in: /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf You can find extensive documentation of the NetBSD Packages Collection in /pkgsrc/pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt. Hopefully everything is now complete. Thank you for using pkgsrc! =========================================================================== ===> bootstrap started: Thu Apr 27 01:45:46 CEST 2017 ===> bootstrap ended: Thu Apr 27 03:47:58 CEST 2017
Add the /usr/pkg/bin to your path in your .cshrc
Also you might want to symlink libgcc_s.so.1 to /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib so you dont get the following error
/sbin/loader: Fatal Error: Cannot map library libgcc_s.so.1
Once done you can build packages via these sets of commands
# cd /pkgsrc/net/tnftp # env CC=/data/gcc-new/bin/gcc CXX=/data/gcc-new/bin/g++ CFLAGS=-O2 bmake install clean clean-depends If you get errors during bmake process similar to this /usr/include/pthread.h:328:4: error: #error "Please compile the module including pthread.h with -pthread Run the build command with CFLAGS=-pthread # env CC=/data/gcc-new/bin/gcc CXX=/data/gcc-new/bin/g++ CFLAGS=-pthread bmake install clean clean-depends
Of course on the alphavm_free the compilation speeds are something to consider and one should be armed with patience and determination.
But this is nothing compared to the compilation of pkgsrc packages on 133 MHz Hitachi SH3 processor with 32 MB of integrated RAM Jornada 690 I did back in 2006/2007
