[dev-serveez] sparc32 build

[Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob]

hi!

since my sparc32 is happily up and running we had another try to compile
the current cvs serveez with guile 1.3 on that old (redhat) linux.

it works! the sys/resource.h bug was due to /usr/src/linux being some
ancient devel-kernel (2.3.x). i changed it to 2.2.20. btw: 3 hours, 30
minutes to compile linux 2.2.20 on a 25 Mhz sparc :-)

serveez can be compiled and the binary/library work. ela did some tweaking
so that the SMOB things work with the old guile.

however, testing the guile echo server revealed a bug: the
"find-the-scheme-method" magic fails to find methods identified by its
name: "No such procedure". howver, supplying the method itself does
work.

not-working:
(define-servertype! '( ... (detect-proto . echo-detect-proto) ... ))

working:
(define-servertype! `( ... (detect-proto . ,echo-detect-proto) ... ))

we dont know where that comes from yet. mgrabmue: anything obvious?

p.s.: i am currently trying to set up a cross-compilation environment so
that i can create binaries for the sparc on my pc. i have a gcc now, but
it cannot generate binaries yet:
"/lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation"
... whatever. funny: ussing -S to optain an assembler file and the "as" to
create the elf binary results in a binary file that looks like a sparc32
executable (file(1) says that) but it cannot be executed... very weird.

if i ever get that to work we perhaps can make serveez
cross-compileable. trying that now would probably fail...

Bye,
    Raimi

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