Build notes for unimatrix

These are my notes while I was building/configuring the new unimatrix system. Ongoing...

• July 16, 2011
• Kernel panic during boot (network configuring) was caused by ewa?_mode variable in SRM. The variable was set to Twisted-pair, but when set to Auto-negotiate the kernel no longer panics.
  Using the tulip driver with a DE500-BA (21143-PC with PHY chip ML6694).

• August 22, 2012
• The above kernel panic still occurs, but passing the kernel option "ether" may provide a solution. This option allows you to force a certain media type the ethernet driver uses. Matching the media type of the driver with the media type set in the SRM may prevent the problem (seen once so far).
  If the the media type in the SRM is set to Fast-FD, then lookup the corresponding media type "number" in the driver source code and pass it to the "ether" option. For example, the tulip driver defines the media types in the array "medianame" in tulip_core.c. Element "100baseFx-FDX" is the 8th element of the array, so the "ether" option would become:
  
  ether=8
  
  This sets the media type for eth0 to 100baseFx-FDX. Other eth devices can be added to the "ether" option, separate them by a comma.

• September 1, 2012
• Setting the debug level of the tulip driver (tulip_debug in tulip.h) to something else than 4 or 6 causes the system to emit the following error message whenever the interface is fired up with ifconfig:
  
  net eth<N>: (<I>) System Error occurred (2)
net eth<N>: (<I+1>) System Error occurred (2)
net eth<N>: (<I+2>) System Error occurred (2)
...

N: interface number; I: error message number
  
  This error message originates from the file interrupt.c of the tulip driver. According to the source code this is a PCI error, specifically error code 2 means "target error."
  
  In case the "ether" option mentioned previously is not used, the error seems to occur in debug level 4 and 6 as well.
  
  Seems like a timing issue.

• October 8-10, 2012
• Disks in bay 4 suffer from what appears to be bus time-outs. In case of a RAID set this renders the LUN degraded. Problem seen during compilation and during a find operation. Cause unknown. No longer using bay 4.

• October 17, 2012
• System no longer panics when configuring eth0 device with ifconfig. This may be due to recent removal of the (unused) second DE500 and the tulip driver does not handle multiple DE500s very well. The second DE500 was not connected (i.e. no link beat), so another possibility for the problem could be that such a condition is not handled correctly by the driver.
  
  Needs further investigation.


• syslog-ng
• Not installing because it requires glib which, in turn, requires the gettext library.

• October 20, 2012
• tcl (8.5.12)
• ./configure --enable-man-suffix --enable-threads
• When running the test suite (make test), and the /tmp directory is a separate filesystem, it should not have the noexec mount option set, otherwise the test load.test will fail.
  Also, a minimum /etc/hosts file must be present else thei HTTP test will fail. A definition for the localhost and the host itself is sufficient.
• berkeley db (4.2.52)
• ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --enable-cxx --enable-tcl --with-tcl=../../../local/src/tcl8.5.12/unix --enable-test
• The "doc" directory defaults to "${prefix}/docs" and cannot be set, so modified the main Makefile.

• October 21, 2012
• Network error of September 1 is back, twice in a row. After the third reboot there were no problems.

• October 23, 2012
• sendmail (8.14.5)
• Created the file devtools/Site/site.config.m4 for some additional settings, namely linking of the pthread library which is needed for the Berkeley DB.
• at (3.1.12)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-jobdir=/var/spool/at --with-atspool=/var/spool/at
• ./configure does not set the correct "doc" directory. It places the "doc" directory in "${prefix}/doc" instead of "${prefix}/share/doc". Adjusted in the main Makefile.

• November 9, 2012
• nfs-utils (1.2.6)
• ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-gss --disable-nfsv4 --disable-nfsv41 --disable-ipv6 --disable-tirpc --without-tcp-wrappers
• Required patch to fix an undefined conditional "CONFIG_SQLITE3". File ./configure.ac is patched so need to run ./autogen.sh to generate a new ./configure script.
• There's a typo in the file tests/t0001-statd-basic-mon-unmon.sh, line 19. A comment line starts with an "*" while it should start with a "#". Same issue in tests/test-lib.sh.

• November 15, 2012
• Network error. Resetting and re-negotiating the NIC using the mii-tool seems to help, sometimes.

• November 16, 2012
• sysvinit (2.87)

Boot transistions

Bootflag	Action
-b,emergency	Execute /sbin/sulogin, nothing else On exit of sulogin shell, resume normal boot procedure
-s,single,s,S	"sysinit" action Runlevel "S" On leaving runlevel "S": "boot" and "bootwait" actions Transit to specified runlevel or "initdefault" runlevel Implicitely switching runlevel while in runlevel "S": Switch to specified runlevel
1-5,7-9,<none>	"sysinit" action "boot" and "bootwait" actions Transit to specified runlevel or "initdefault" runlevel


init automatically adds an /sbin/sulogin action if there are no entries for runlevel "S" (internally "-s", "single", and "s" are converted to "S", so it applies to those as well).
Likewise, for the "emergency" bootflag the same /sbin/sulogin action is defined internally. This means that for the "emergency" bootflag or single-user mode an /etc/inittab file is not required.

• November 17, 2012
• tcp-wrappers (7.6)
• Added -DSYS_ERRLIST_DEFINED to EXTRA_CFLAGS variable for "linux" target in the Makefile.
• In scaffold.c, line 28, changed return type of malloc() prototype to "void".
• portmap (6456249)
• Used NO_TCP_WRAPPER=1 for build.

• December 19, 2012
• net-snmp (5.7.2)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-ipv6 --disable-deprecated --disable-embedded-perl --without-rpm --with-default-snmp-version=3 --with-transports='UDP UDPIPv6 TCP TCPIPv6 Unix' --with-security-modules=usm --with-sys-contact=root@unimatrix --with-sys-location=unknown --with-agentx-socket=\${localstatedir}/agentx/master --with-logfile=\${localstatedir}/log/snmpd.log --with-persistent-directory=\${localstatedir}/lib/net-snmp --without-mysql
• Implicitly specified various options for ./configure as it may otherwise prompt for these options.
• powerman (2.3.16)
• CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/include/ncurses' ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-ncurses
• Added include path for ncurses during ./configure (through CPPFLAGS). Running test suite will otherwise fail.
• nut (2.6.5)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/nut --without-cgi --with-statepath=/var/run/nut --with-altpidpath=/var/run/nut --with-drvpath=/usr/libexec/nut --with-pidpath=/var/run/nut --with-user=ups --with-group=daemon --with-drivers=mge-shut,mge-utalk,snmp-ups,powerman-pdu
• python required when building SNMP UPS driver. A Python script is used to generate nutscan-snmp.h in directory tools/nut-scanner/. Install Python or workaround by building on a system with Python and copy nutscan-snmp.h to target system.

• December 21, 2012
• logrotate (3.8.2)
• Set correct directory for man pages (MANDIR) in Makefile and changed definitions for logrotate's state file (STATEFILE) and mail command (DEFAULT_MAIL_COMMAND) in config.h.
  Also, the scripts in the test suite contain some shell constructions not available in the original Bourne shell (/bin/sh), so have to make sure /bin/sh points to a feature-rich shell (e.g. bash).
• run-parts (1.15)
• Added quotes and newlines around multi-line text strings in version() and usage() functions.

• December 22, 2012
• openssl (1.0.1c)
• There's no GNU ./configure script, so this was the configuration command:
  
  ./Configure --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl --shared linux-alpha+bwx-gcc
  
  (add -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS to protect against heartbleed vulnerability)
  
  Must also specify -fPIC option for Alpha.

• January 2, 2013
• linux (2.6.39.4)
• Link errors in the final stage of the build: "relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against `.sbss'". The error occurs in multiple functions. Need to remove flag -msmall-data from "cflags-y" variable in arch/alpha/Makefile.
• Note that in arch/alpha/Makefile there's an assembler flag added to the KBUILD_CFLAGS variable. This is always the flag -mev6 which may seem incorrect if you're building for EV56 or earlier systems. However, the manual of GNU as states that in such a case the assembler will either bail out or generate a macro for an instruction. So, at compile-time you'll notice whether or not the code can be correctly translated for the target.

• January 22, 2013
• Did a cat eerom in the SRM and subsequently the SRM prompt ceased accepting input from the system console (MMJ). eerom appears to be a binary file... Rebooting did not fix the problem, although the normal boot traces did appear on the system console (so output was working). Eventually did a clear_srm_nvram and a clear_arc_nvram and ran the ECU. Input from the system console then worked again. Next time better use hd command (hexdump) to examine unknown files.

• January 23, 2013
• The network problem. Replacing NIC with different DE500-BA did not resolve problem. Also swapping PCI slot does not prevent the network error from occurring. Tested with every media type recognized by the SRM (ewa0_mode).

• January 25 & 26, 2013
• Network problem. Switching to de4x5 driver, abandoning the tulip driver. de4x5 driver hangs when configuring interface (ifconfig). It seems the de4x5 driver does not recognize the NIC's PHY chip, which is an ML6694 from Micro Linear. Attempted to quickly add support for the ML6694 by extending the driver's PHY chip table, but that did not resolve the problem. However, in order to support the DE500-BA cards, the de4x5 driver should be updated, so this remains an open issue.

• January 27, 2013
• Network problem continuation. I've replaced the DE500-BA NIC by a DE500-AA. The -AA uses the 21140 ethernet controller with a PHY chip from NatSemi (DP83840A). The de4x5 driver should support the PHY chip, but it still hangs when the interface is configured. Using the tulip driver however does not show any problems anymore, so I'll stick with a DE500-AA and the tulip driver for now and see whether support for the -BA model can be added to the de4x5 driver later on.

• February 6, 2013
• nut (2.6.5)
• UPS status messages echo'ed by upsmon don't show up on terminal sessions. This is due to limitted access rights on the terminal device files. The terminal device files are group-owned by "tty" but it has no write access on the files unless a user grants access by using the mesg utility.

• February 13, 2013
• man-pages (3.47)
• Shell commands in Makefile use non-Bourne syntax so it's better to use /bin/bash as the SHELL interpreter.

• March 5, 2013
• NUT (2.6.5) & MGE Pulsar Evolution 500
• snmp-ups driver does not seem to support shutting down Evo500 (i.e. UPS remains on).
• Setting "battery.charge.restart" doesn't seem to be honored (i.e. UPS does not restart when battery.charge.restart is reached).
• Setting "ups.delay.start" doesn't seem to be honored (i.e. UPS starts immediately after main power is restored).
• Instant command "shutdown.return" does not shut off Evo500.

• March 8, 2013

AS800 ready to take over duties of old unimatrix!

Operational functionality:
• Loading OS and logging in
• Ordered system shutdown
• Configuring network interfaces
• Firewall en NAT'ing
• Scheduler service
• System log service
• Mail service
• UPS monitoring
• Internet super server service
• Secure shell service
• Backup
• Development tools

• March 9, 2013
• unzip (6.10b)
• Set "prefix" and "MANDIR" variables in appropriate Makefile.
• daemonize (1.7.4)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr
• Optionally add CFLAGS definitions to Makefile (./configure does not do that).

• March 23, 2013
• python (2.7.3)
• CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/include/ncurses' ./configure --enable-shared
• Modified "OPT" variable in main Makefile. Removed the -fwrapv flag and reduced optimization level to -O2.

• March 26, 2013
• apr (1.4.6)
• ./configure --enable-layout=GNU --enable-nonportable-atomics --enable-threads --enable-other-child
• make check not successfull. Assertion in file testmutexscope.c, line 83. Furthermore, test "testprocmutex" seems to hang indefinitely. Proceeding with installation, though.
• apr-util (1.5.1)
• ./configure --enable-layout=GNU --with-apr=/usr/local/bin --with-crypto --with-openssl --with-dbm=db42 --with-berkeley-db=/usr --with-pgsql
• There seems to be a bug in the ./configure script when the location of apr-1-config is being determined. Without manually specifying the location of apr-1-config (e.g. without --with-apr=), there are two test commands which are always failing and causing the ./configure script to bail out.
  
  Also, make check is failing due to a filename mismatch between the main Makefile and the Makefile of the test suite. It concerns the file "libaprutil.la", generated by the main Makefile (TARGET_LIBS). The test suite however, expects the file to be named "libaprutil1.la" (notice the "1"). Changed the Makefile of the test suite by removing the "1" in the filename (see variable LOCAL_LIBS).

• March 27, 2013
• apr-util (1.5.1)
• Berkeley DB was not automatically detected, so explicitely specified search path to Berkeley DB files (i.e. --with-berkeley-db) and which version to use (i.e. --with-dbm=db<version>).
• subversion (1.6.20)
• ./configure --disable-nls --with-apxs=/usr/local/bin/apxs
• Some incompatibilities in relation to Apache 2.4.4, so switched to subversion 1.7.8.

• April 2, 2013
• sendmail (8.14.5)
• Formatted man pages are installed in the man page directories instead of the troff text files. Copied the troff text files to the man page directories.

• April 13, 2013
• apache (2.4.4)
• ./configure --enable-layout=GNU --libexecdir=\${exec_prefix}/libexec/apache2 --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --localstatedir=/var --enable-so --enable-dav
• htpasswd utility partly broken: it generates faulty passwords when used interactively. Resolution: use "-n" and "-b" option to echo the passwords to a htpasswd file.

• April 23, 2013
• expect (5.43)
• Not entirely compatible with tcl8.5.12 and tk8.5.12, so switched to version 5.45.

• April 25, 2013
• expect (5.45)
• ./configure --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man
• Removed expect's example scripts from /usr/local/bin as well as their man pages.

• June 3, 2013
• LPRng (3.8.35)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-setuid --disable-kerberos --disable-nls --disable-ssl --with-initpath=/sbin/init.d/lprng.sh
• Makefile(s) require Bash shell to execute, so need to pass something like SHELL=/bin/bash to make command. The SHELL variable is defined in the Makefile(s) and its value may have been quoted. This seems to cause a seqmentation fault in make when it executes a recipe (seen in make version 3.82). Either pass (i.e., overwrite) the SHELL variable as a command line parameter or remove the quotes by editing the Makefile(s).
• ifhp (3.5.22)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-snmp --disable-nls --with-pagesize=a4 --with-fontdir=\${prefix}/share/ifhp/fonts
• ./configure fails to detect support for inet_ntop() and inet_pton() functions. Added HAVE_INET_NTOP and HAVE_INET_PTON definitions to config.h file.
  Also, due to compiler flag -Werror, src/ifhp.c fails to compile because of a deprecated sigblock declaration. Removing the -Werror flag from src/Makefile.
• a2ps (4.13)
• ./configure --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --disable-nls
• Conflicting types for malloc in lib/path-concat.c, line 34. Commented the malloc prototype.
• make check fails on backup.tst at point "echo 5 | ...". The test suite should probably not be run by root for that test.
• guile (2.0.9)
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-deprecated --disable-nls --without-threads
• Long build time (esp. guile compiler parts). About 3,5hrs.

• July 13, 2013
• ast-base (2012-08-01)
• libdl was missing at some point of the compilation, so passed the library by using LDFLAGS variable. Also added CCFLAGS.
  
  bin/package make CCFLAGS='-O2 -fPIC' LDFLAGS=-Wl,--start-group,-ldl,--end-group
  
  Manually copied ksh93 files to system:
  
  arch/<arch>/bin/ksh -> /usr/bin/ksh
arch/<arch>/bin/shcomp -> /usr/bin/shcomp
arch/<arch>/man/man1/sh.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/ksh.1 *
  
  *) RENAMED! Also set Z to 2 in man page.
  
  Note, ast-base contains many other utilities besides ksh. Among them is nmake which allows the test suite to be run for ksh and the other utilities. Using the same command as above, except specifying the action "test" instead of "make". Some tests fail due to incompatible command switches with GNU commands. Note that running the test suite as root results in additional failures due to permission-related tests behaving differently when run by root, so it's better to run the test suite as a non-privileged user.

• July 17, 2013
• ast-ksh (2012-08-01)
• libdl and libm missing at final link, so passed those libraries by using LDFLAGS variable. Also added CCFLAGS.
  
  bin/package make LDFLAGS=-Wl,--start-group,-ldl,-lm,--end-group
  
  The test suite can be run by executing the test script shtest in the directory src/cmd/ksh93/tests. Add search path to the newly compiled ksh binary to PATH variable and execute
  
  SHELL=ksh ksh ./shtests
  
  The "locale" test is failing due to an invalid option -C (multibyte-chars); GNU wc does not support this option.

• August 6, 2013
• tcp_wrappers (7.6)
• When wrapper support is needed in other programs such as nfs-utils, don't forget to copy libwrap.a and tcpd.h to the system. The Makefile file of tcp_wrappers has no install target, so all binaries, libraries, and headers files have to be copied manually.
• Prototype of malloc() may be wrong in file scaffold.c. May need to change return type from char to void.

• August 7, 2013
• portmap (6456249)
• man page for pmap_set.8 is installed as map_set.8, missing the letter "p". Fixed install target in Makefile.

• September 8, 2013
• netkit-rwho (0.17)
• In rwhod.c a conflicting declaration for function getloadavg occurs (conflicting with /usr/include/stdlib.h). Renamed getloadavg in rwhod.c.
• Adjusted the man page installation path in file MCONFIG.

• September 11, 2013
• bsd-finger (0.17)
• In file finger/lprint.c and finger/sprint.c referencing unknown type struct tm. Fixed by including time.h header to both files.
• Adjusted the man page installation path in file MCONFIG. Additionally, changed the installation path of the daemon binary (/usr/libexec instead of /usr/sbin).
• netkit-base (0.17)
• Only installed inetd. Previously used inetd from GNU inetutils package, however the inetd version of that particular package does not support Sun RPC services, so switched to using the version of the netkit package. Note: package openbsd-inetdi also supports Sun RPC services which may act as an alternative.
• File inetd/servtab.c fails to build (lvalue error). Offending code is the macro SWAP which has the assignments a b preceeded by a cast. This seems to be a problem for GCC, so removed the cast from the assignments.
• Adjusted the man page installation path in file MCONFIG.
• netkit-bootparamd (0.17)
• Adjusted the man page installation path in file MCONFIG. Also, the man page for bootparams.5 was not installed, so added a line to the Makefile to install this file as well.

• September 18, 2013
• netkit-rwho (0.17)
• Added option to rwhod to enable using only specific network interfaces. This allows limiting rwhod service to my local network. Also added a "no daemon"-option and fixed some other minor things. Patch is here.

• October 19, 2013
• cpio (2.11)
• Makefile installs man page mt.1 despite the ./configure option --disable-mt (possibly overwritting the man page of mt from the tar package).

• March 5, 2014
• acct (6.5.5) & sysvinit (2.87)
• Accounting utilities provide a last program just as sysvinit does, so need to disable one or the other. I've chosen to use the last program of the acct package, but I've renamed the last program of sysvinit to lastb (which is actually a symlink to last). The same applies to the man page of sysvinit's last and lastb.

• August 16, 2014
• shishi (1.0.2)
• Requires libtasn1 which is not included in the package (contrary to what the installation documentation says). Also, libgcrypt seems to be a requirement whereas the installation documentation says it's optional. However, the ./configure script bails out if libgcrypt is unavailable. libgcrypt in turn requires libgpg-error.
• inetutils (1.9.2)
• The file src/rlogind.c has a misplaced closing parenthesis on line 336; the parenthesis should be outside the #endif directive (i.e., after line 337). If compiling with IPv6 support then this is not a problem. However, compiling without IPv6 support gives you a build error.
• There's also a build error in the man sub-directory which occurs when the tool help2man is not available. Normally this tool isn't used, but the error is caused by the above modification to src/rlogind.c. The source file is a dependency of the man page and help2man is used to (re)generate the man page. Since our modification to src/rlogind.c is not related to the man page, we reset the timestamp of src/rlogind.c before the build is restarted. This way help2man will not be triggered.

• August 18, 2014
• krb5 (1.12.2)
• Switched from Shishi Kerberos to MIT Kerberos.
• Configuring package with --with-size-optimizations option causes a build error.
• krb5-appl (1.0.3)
• Preferred the daemons to be located in /usr/libexec directory. This can be altered by modifying variable SERVER_BINDIR in file pre.in. Set SERVER_BINDIR to @libexecdir@ and (re)do the build.
• Due to some overlap in commands between krb5-appl and inetutils I've only installed the commands in the bsd subdirectory of krb5-appl and adjusted the configuration of inetutils accordingly (the latter no longer builds the Berkeley "r" commands). For krb5-appl just run the following command:
  
  make -C bsd install
  
  

• October 22, 2014
• netkit-ntalk (0.17)
• In file talkd/announce.c referencing unknown type struct tm. Fixed by including time.h header to file.

• November 12, 2014
• ast-base (2012-08-01)
• Build error with libcs when using bin/package make, so attempted to build manually as an alternative. A manual build of a package or component is achieved by using the mamake executable (see also the AST FAQ). I did the following:
  
  bin/package view
bin/package use

<src> is the root directory of the AST source tree, while <hosttype> identifies the "hosttype" directory (e.g., <src>/arch/linux.alpha).
  Next, change to the directory of a library or command under <hosttype>/src (e.g., <hosttype>src/lib/libast). The view action executed previously has mirrored the directory structure of <src>/src. Now run the following command:
  
  mamake install
  
  This will build libast.a and installs it in <hosttype>/lib. Repeat this for other libraries or commands; you'll have to guess the dependencies.
  
• Building libpp fails at first. Copy the executable gentab to <hosttype>/src/lib/libpp and then retry.
• Command pax requires additional library dl. Pass LDFLAGS parameter to mamake:
  
  mamake install LDFLAGS=-Wl,--start-group,-ldl,--end-group
  
  
• Similar problem occurs for ksh, library dl and m are required:
  
  mamake install LDFLAGS=-Wl,--start-group,-ldl,-lm,--end-group
  
  
• The builtin commands (builtin) is missing the file cp.c and therefore breaks the build.
• Building 3d also fails due to missing various source files.

• January 10, 2015
• minicom (2.3)
• Conflicting type errors in src/minicom.c: One is caused by the inclusion of termcap.h in port.h. termcap.h is included from both the termcap package and the ncurses package. Need to include from either termcap or ncurses, not both. Second error is caused by the function getline() in src/minicom.c itself. The function conflicts with the stdio.h header. Renamed the minicom version to mc_getline().

• May 31, 2015
• php (5.4.41)
• ./configure --prefix=/opt/php-5.4.41 --sysconfdir=/etc/opt/php-5.4.41 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/bin/apxs --disable-cgi --with-layout=GNU --with-config-file-path=/etc/opt/php-5.4.41 --disable-ipv6 --disable-libxml --with-openssl --with-kerberos --with-pcre-regex=/usr --with-zlib --with-bz2 --enable-calendar --disable-dom --with-gmp --with-pgsql=/usr/local --disable-simplexml --with-snmp --with-libexpat-dir=/usr --disable-xmlreader --disable-xmlwriter
• Using external version of PCRE library. This is because PHP's bundled version is configured with Slack-less JIT Compiler support which isn't supported for Alpha and results in a build error. For the external PCRE library we can configure it to not support SLJIT (which is the default).

• June 28, 2015
• libmcrypt (2.5.7)
• Excluded cast-256 algorithm as it does not work correctly on Alpha.

• May 10, 2017
• linux (2.6.39.4)
• New Symbios driver (sym53c8xx-v2) does recognize HP HVD SCSI card (A4800A) because driver assumes WRIE feature (Write & Invalidate Enable) is supported, but card (Rev. 4) doesn't appear to support it. Simple fix is to add a new entry to the Symbios device table (sym_dev_table[]) in source file drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c. Copy an entry for the "875", use chip revision 4, and clear out the FE_WRIE bit from the features member. Keep the chip revision for the each chip in ascending order. Here's a patch.
  An alternative could be to fix it in the sym_prepare_setting() function.

• Oct 19, 2017
• anacron (2.3)
In file gregor.c, function day_num(), the variable isleap is declared as const while a value is assigned later on in the function. The const qualifier must be removed.

• Dec 6, 2017
• suck (4.3.2)
When using suck in combination with INN, you may run into the problem where the header files of INN cannot be found. I my case version 2.6.1 of INN was used which has its header files in a .../include/inn directory; the inn sub-directory is used throughout the INN header files. However, the suck package doesn't account for this inn sub-directory, so I needed to make a small change to 2 files:
• configure (checking for libinn.h)
Line 4079, extending the check to include the inn sub-directory.

        if test -f $path/libinn.h -o -f $path/inn/libinn.h
        

Line 4084, extending the check to include the inn sub-directory.

        if test ! -f $path/configdata.h -a ! -f $path/inn/configdata.h
        

• chkhistory_db.c
Line 87 and 88, added inn sub-directory to include directive.

• Dec 8, 2017
• inn (2.6.1)
INND leaves zombie processes which seem to be caused by this changeset (additional check for PSrunning state in function PROCreap()). Removed this additional check.

• April 13, 2018
• openssl (1.0.2o)
• There's no GNU ./configure script, so this was the configuration command:
  
  ./Configure --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl --shared --with-krb5-dir=/usr -mcpu=ev56 linux-alpha+bwx-gcc
  
  For the installation the following command was used:
  
  make install MANDIR=/usr/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl

  Even though the OpenSSL release change was minor and rebuilding dependencies shouldn't be necessary, libneon did require a rebuild. Without the rebuild of libneon, accessing Subversion repositories over https bailed out with an "SSL library mismatch."

• August 27, 2020
• php (5.5.38)
• Compiling ext/phar/phar.phar results in a segmentation fault. The problem is not caused by the PHAR extension, but by the PHP CLI binary that was built (see also bug report). The fix is to configure PHP with CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing.
• Unaligned access on Alpha in extension "fileinfo":
  • ext/fileinfo/libmagic/apprentice.c:2665
  • ext/fileinfo/libmagic/apprentice.c:2676
  • ext/fileinfo/libmagic/apprentice.c:2708
  • ext/fileinfo/libmagic/softmagic.c:144
  • ext/fileinfo/libmagic/softmagic.c:145
  Reproduceable by running the test cases of the extension:

  php <php-srcdir>/ext/fileinfo/tests/<phpt-file>

  No fix.
• xapian-bindings (1.3.4)
When building with PHP binding, the following error occurred when php/php5/xapian_wrap.cc was being compiled:


php5/xapian_wrap.cc: In member function 'Xapian::Query XapianSWIGQueryItor::operator*() const':
/opt/php-5.5/include/php/Zend/../TSRM/TSRM.h:167:18: error: 'tsrm_ls' was not declared in this scope
 #define TSRMLS_C tsrm_ls
		

The problem seems to be a missing TSRM macro call which defines the variable tsrm_ls. In the offending function operator*() (line 1527), add the following statement:

TSRMLS_FETCH();
		

Add the statement before the call to SWIG_ConvertPtr().

• October 23, 2020
• bsd-games (2.6)
• Redefinition of function getline() in several files:
  • boggle/boggle/mach.c
  • boggle/boggle/extern.h
  • boggle/boggle/bog.c
  • cribbage/cribbage.h
  • cribbage/io.c
  • cribbage/crib.c
  • gomoku/gomoku.h
  • gomoku/bdisp.c
  • gomoku/main.c
  Renamed the getline() function to xgetline().
• Missing header file in pom/pom.c causing "incomplete element type" errors related to GMT variable in main(). Add include directive for time.h header to this file.
• Redefinition of abs() in sail/extern.h (may already be present in header stdlib.h). Simply commented out the definition in sail/extern.h.
• Error "incomplete element type" in trek/trek.h, external references Skitab and Lentab (line 218 and 219). Moved these 2 lines to trek/getpar.h.

• October 25, 2020
• rogue (3.5)
• Applied the included patches rogue.Patch1 and rogue.Patch2, but kept the original machdep.c file (see next item). For rogue.Patch1 the hunk of the Makefile fails, but the changes can be manually copied into the Makefile.
• Build errors due to unknown type timezone in function md_gct() of file machdep.c. Timezone argument for gettimeofday() is not needed in this function and can be set to NULL. Consequently, local variable tzp can be removed. Also included header time.h in machdep.c.
• In file score.c changed the pathname of the score file (variable score_file) to /var/games/rogue.scores. Manually installed the included score file rogue.scores in /var/games.

• November 24, 2020
• dungeon (games)
The Makefile target clean removes the file dtextc.dat. However, this file is re-created from a number of uuencoded files which are not present in the tarball. So, you may need to extract dtextc.dat from the tarball on the next build. Also, the man page is not installed by the Makefile, so you need to do this by hand.

• December 9, 2020
• mysql (5.0.96)
• Unaligned trap in mysqld, file mysys/my_lib.c, line 154 (while ( READDIR ...)). The alignment error appears to be located in the dirent_tmp array. This array is passed to READDIR() which is a macro calling readdir_r(). The dirent_tmp variable is a character array which is later cast to a struct dirent* and finally passed to the READDIR() macro. I believe the alignment of dirent_tmp is at fault. A small hack to fix: Change the datatype of dirent_tmp from character array to an array of 2 struct dirent's.
• MySQL configuration uses a utility called getconf to detect large file support. This utility did not detect large file support on the unimatrix host. As a fix, I've added the definition -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to the CFLAGS and the CXXFLAGS during configuration.

• April 25, 2021
• apr (1.7.0)
• ./configure --enable-layout=GNU --enable-nonportable-atomics --enable-threads --enable-other-child apr_cv_mutex_robust_shared=no
• Set apr_cv_mutex_robust_shared to no to prevent hanging mutex. This, in turn, affects Apache httpd when using the Event MPM server (server threads stuck in "Reading request" state or server not accepting new connections). Adding the apr_cv_mutex_robust_shared variable probably also resolves the failing test "testprocmutex" of apr 1.6.4 which was used in the past.
  A newer kernel or glibc version may resolve the mutex problem in which case setting the apr_cv_mutex_robust_shared variable is no longer necessary.