Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:04:18 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 489 ************************************************** Thursday 30 December 2004 Number 489 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Vixie Cron for OS/2 : John Poltorak 2 Re: Fork and AMD K6-2 CPU : Knut St. Osmundsen" 3 Re: Fork and AMD K6-2 CPU : lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca 4 distcc : John Poltorak 5 OpenSSL : John Poltorak 6 Re: distcc : Dave Yeo 7 Re: distcc : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:24:50 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Vixie Cron for OS/2 Does anyone know who has ported Vixie Cron to OS/2? I know it has been ported because I have a copy, but there is no OS/2 README in the archive so I don't know what to expect from it or who to refer to if there is a problem. -- John **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:21:47 +0100 From: "Knut St. Osmundsen" Subject: Re: Fork and AMD K6-2 CPU Dave Yeo wrote: > On Mon, 2004-27-12 at 11:11 -0500, lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca wrote: > >>The SYS3176 errors are illegal opcode errors. It could be that the >>runtime >>code uses a number of instructions that are not available on the K6-2. >>If >>the code you generate is causing the errors ou could try using the >>-march >>option on the compiler to generate K6-2 code. > > > On my K6-2 the only sigills I've gotten seem all to be related to fork. > It seems the FXSAVE instruction wasn't introduced until about the > Pentium II and a half (350 Mhz Deschutes (sp?)) so quite a few older > processors are going to get sigills. Seems that FSAVE would be a better > choice though it doesn't save quite as much in one instruction and is > possibly slower. > I wonder if GCC added the FXSAVE or if Knut used Assembly? It's my assembly of course. And the reason is simply that it saves/restores the XMM registers correctly (and potential future stuff). Of course I was betting on everyone having decent hardware... :-) kind regards, knut **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:15:07 -0500 From: lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca Subject: Re: Fork and AMD K6-2 CPU In <41D34A1B.2060305 at anduin.net>, on 12/30/04 at 01:21 AM, "Knut St. Osmundsen" said: >Dave Yeo wrote: >> On Mon, 2004-27-12 at 11:11 -0500, lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca wrote: >> >>>The SYS3176 errors are illegal opcode errors. It could be that the >>>runtime >>>code uses a number of instructions that are not available on the K6-2. >>>If >>>the code you generate is causing the errors ou could try using the >>>-march >>>option on the compiler to generate K6-2 code. >> >> >> On my K6-2 the only sigills I've gotten seem all to be related to fork. >> It seems the FXSAVE instruction wasn't introduced until about the >> Pentium II and a half (350 Mhz Deschutes (sp?)) so quite a few older >> processors are going to get sigills. Seems that FSAVE would be a better >> choice though it doesn't save quite as much in one instruction and is >> possibly slower. >> I wonder if GCC added the FXSAVE or if Knut used Assembly? >It's my assembly of course. And the reason is simply that it >saves/restores the XMM registers correctly (and potential future stuff). >Of course I was betting on everyone having decent hardware... :-) >kind regards, > knut Nice try... But you should know better... At least the guy trying to run postgreSQL in Italy on a K6-2 had a 2.4 GHz P4 handy... Lorne -- ----------------------------------------------------------- lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca ----------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:52:43 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: distcc Has anyone ever used DISTCC (http://distcc.samba.org/) ? It seems like a pretty neat utility although I've never seen it in practise. Is there any reason why it shouldn't work on OS/2? -- John **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:50:57 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: OpenSSL I just tried building OpenSSL v0.9.7e and got his error:- tmp_dll\c_all.obj(c_all.obj) : error L2029: 'ENGINE_setup_bsd_cryptodev' : unresolved external Anyone know what's missing? v0.9.7 built without any problems. -- John **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:54:50 -0800 From: Dave Yeo Subject: Re: distcc On Thu, 2004-30-12 at 09:52 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: > Has anyone ever used DISTCC (http://distcc.samba.org/) ? > > It seems like a pretty neat utility although I've never seen it in > practise. Is there any reason why it shouldn't work on OS/2? Didn't we go over this last year? Dave **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:43:26 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: distcc On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:54:50AM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: > On Thu, 2004-30-12 at 09:52 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: > > Has anyone ever used DISTCC (http://distcc.samba.org/) ? > > > > It seems like a pretty neat utility although I've never seen it in > > practise. Is there any reason why it shouldn't work on OS/2? > > > Didn't we go over this last year? The subject was brought up but I don't recall any conclusion as to whether it would be possible to get it working on OS/2. Have you ever seen it in action on Unix? > Dave > -- John