Using Suse 9.1 pro for AMD64 as dev server.

[YhLu]

I'm planning to use Suse 9.1 pro for AMD64 as my dev server.

I have encountered some problems:
1. vi color, the Old RH 9 vi can high lighten the C grammar. But the Suse
don't how to enable it?
2. can not compiled gcc 3.4.2 under Suse 9.1 pro for AMD 64.
3. Etherboot doesn't like gcc 3.3.3, the tg3.zelf produced is corrupted,
only 17k.

Regards

YH

[Stefan Reinauer]

* YhLu  [041108 22:48]:
> I'm planning to use Suse 9.1 pro for AMD64 as my dev server.
>
> I have encountered some problems:
> vi color, the Old RH 9 vi can high lighten the C grammar. But the Suse
>
> don't how to enable it?

It's just disabled per default.
: syn on. Or add "syn on" to your .vimrc
> can not compiled gcc 3.4.2 under Suse 9.1 pro for AMD 64.

Any error messages? You might get
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/suse/src/gcc-3.3.4-11.src.rpm and
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/suse/src/binutils-2.15.91.0.2-7.src.rpm
and do rpmbuild --rebuild on them to get native rpms for amd64. It's
likely that you have more success with those (Or you use 9.2, it has
just been released. They also have a Live DVD which might be nice for
testing without having to install, at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-cd-9.2/SUSE-Linux-9.2-LiveDVD.iso
but I have no idea whether there's a gcc on it, I only tried the live cd
so far..
> Etherboot doesn't like gcc 3.3.3, the tg3.zelf produced is corrupted,
>
> only 17k.

Do you know any details on this one?

Stefan

[David Hendricks]

> vi color, the Old RH 9 vi can high lighten the C grammar.

Looks like you found the solution to this one, but I also suggest adding
these these to your ~/.exrc:
colorscheme koehler
set si
set showmatch
set showmode
set ai
set ic
> Etherboot doesn't like gcc 3.3.3, the tg3.zelf produced is
>
> corrupted, only 17k.

Which version of Etherboot? I think I ran into a version with 5.2.4
where ELF/ZELF images were corrupt no matter which GCC I tried.