[fedora-arm] Fedora 13 ARM Beta3 Release

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/16/2011 03:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 03:04 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> On Monday, May 16, 2011 08:43:17 AM Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> On 05/16/2011 02:41 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>>> On Monday, May 16, 2011 08:37:43 AM Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>> On 05/12/2011 04:57 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>>>> Paul Whalen wrote:
>>>>>>> We are pleased to announce the release of Fedora 13 ARM Beta3. This
>>>>>>> release includes additional software not found in Beta2, most notably
>>>>>>> Abiword for your word processing needs. Unfortunately at this time we
>>>>>>> are not able to offer OpenOffice due to some issues with java packages
>>>>>>> ( java experts we could use your help! ).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Considering that Java only accounts for a small amount of seldom used
>>>>>> functionality, I would suggest that building LibreOffice --without-java
>>>>>> is probably the way forward for the foreseeable future.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope not.  I'm now trying to get a Fedora/ARM system working and
>>>>> I'll start fixing Java-related bugs.  Please let me know which are
>>>>> the most important.
>>>>
>>>> an updated openjdk would be a good start :)
>>>
>>> Sure.  What is the problem here?  It just doesn't build?
>>>
>>> Andrew.
>> looks like lucene is missing. 
>>
>> lucene failed to build 
>> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=93642  there seems to 
>> be an issue with aot compiling the rpms. getting an unresolved symbol after 
>> successfully building things.

I have found two fatal bugs.


The first one is that
/usr/lib/gcc/armv5tel-redhat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.4/libgcc_s.so should be
a linker script: instead it's a symlink.  This caused most
gcj-compiled packages to fail to link.  I have a fixed gcc RPM.

The linker script should look like this:

/* GNU ld script
   Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
   the static library.  */
GROUP ( /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc.a )


Secondly, locks do not work at all in gcj.  This means that any
program using more than one thread will eventually crash.

Fixed by this patch:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2009-q3/msg00069.html

(It's only the change to sysdep/arm/locks.h that we need.)


Andrew.