Alpha Core 3

[Sergey Tikhonov]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:27 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> > Jay Estabrook wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Fernando Carnero wrote:
> >>  
> >>
> >>> jejejeje, yep of, less diplomatic but same answer :))
> >>> ATI is a bad chice to work in Linux enviroment, I probe with ATI 
> >>> driver, glx and DRI and never work fine, I prefere lost my time 
> >>> eating pizza and not configuring ATI ;)
> >>>   
> >>
> >> I've had nothing but good results recently under AC3 with many Radeons
> >> and even a Rage 128, including reasonable stability with 3D apps.
> >>
> >> The older Mac64 cards may be an entirely different story, however,
> >> given your experiences.
> >>
> >> Rergardless, here's  what I think happened to make the "atimisc" driver
> >> fail on Alpha:
> >>
> >> Here we see the "./configure" line that starts the build:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>> + ./configure --build=alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu 
> >>> --host=alphaev56-unknown-linux
> >>> -gnu --target=alpha-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
> >>> --exec-pref
> >>> ix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
> >>> --datadir=/usr/s
> >>> hare --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
> >>> --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --loc
> >>> alstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man 
> >>> --infodir=/usr
> >>> /share/info --disable-static
> >>>   
> >>
> >> I've not been able to figure out where the "alphaev56-*" is always
> >> coming from, as I know I'm building on an EV6 machine...
> 
> Check out /etc/rpm/platform; We need to fix this for the different 
> sub-archs I believe... And then check /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/*.
> 
> Arg. Even uname -m reports the wrong thing on my DS10. :-( Havn't 
> checked the AS1000 yet.
> 
> [root at gosa ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep EV; uname -m; cat /etc/rpm/platform
> cpu model               : EV67
> alpha
> alpha-redhat-linux
I see the /usr/lib/rpm/macros defines _host and other vars as alphaev56
(I guess this is because the package was build on my ev56 machine).

Try to run /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess. What does it guess about your
machine?

Regards,
Sergey.