[OpenBIOS] openbios compile issue, goal = solaris 8/9 (sparc64) under qemu

[Kristian Hermansen]

Hello!

I am interested in running Solaris 8/9 under qemu.  According to the
thread below, it may be possible with more recent versions of OpenBIOS:
http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?p=10243

So I attempt to investigate.  However, I am unable to build the alpha
release of OpenBIOS from 20070427.  I currently have qemu
(20070501-svn-snapshot) Here are the details of my machine setup, and
other variables, along with the output of the errors.

administrator at ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp/openbios-devel$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-khermans-desk 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31
UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
administrator at ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp/openbios-devel$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=feisty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.04"
administrator at ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp/openbios-devel$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2992.671
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips        : 5989.50
clflush size    : 64

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2992.671
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips        : 5985.43
clflush size    : 64

administrator at ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp/openbios-devel$ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 2007-04-05 21:37 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  80916 2007-01-03 15:22 /usr/bin/gcc-3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  85044 2007-01-02 12:03 /usr/bin/gcc-3.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183904 2007-03-02 21:52 /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 2007-04-05 21:37 /usr/bin/gccbug -> gccbug-4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  15970 2007-01-03 15:17 /usr/bin/gccbug-3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  16090 2007-01-02 11:57 /usr/bin/gccbug-3.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  16266 2007-03-02 21:47 /usr/bin/gccbug-4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2018 2006-12-20 09:41 /usr/bin/gccmakedep

administrator at ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp/openbios-devel$
config/scripts/switch-arch cross-sparc64
administrator at ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp/openbios-devel$ make
/usr/bin/xsltproc
Building OpenBIOS on x86 for sparc64
Cleaning up... ok
Initializing build tree...ok.
Creating target Makefile...ok.
Creating config files...ok.
Building...error:
Compiling dictionary 1/2
Compiling dictionary 2/2
OpenBIOS dictionary:
  version:     2
  cellsize:    8
  endianess:   big
  compression: no
  relocation:  yes
  checksum:    ad683c47
  length:      00000000
  last:        0
sparc64-linux-gcc $EXTRACFLAGS -Wa,-xarch=v9 -Wa,-64 -g -Os -Wall -W
-DNATIVE_BITWIDTH_EQUALS_HOST_BITWIDTH -USWAP_ENDIANNESS -g
-Wa,-xarch=v9 -Wa,-64 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -mcmodel=medany -fno-builtin
-nostdlib -ffreestanding -Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Wendif-labels
-Wstrict-aliasing -Iinclude -Ikernel/include
-Iobj-sparc64/target/include -c -o
obj-sparc64/target/arch/sparc64/entry.o arch/sparc64/entry.S
/bin/sh: sparc64-linux-gcc: not found
make[1]: *** [obj-sparc64/target/arch/sparc64/entry.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/openbios-devel'


So, I notice that the package egcs64 may provide sparc64-linux-gcc, but
I am unable to find such a package in debian/ubuntu or the sources to
compile it myself.  However, the google searches I made turned up only
people on SPARC platforms running egcs64, so I am unsure what the
requirements are to get to my intended goal -- Solaris 8/9 under qemu.

Any help is greatly appreciated!  Thanks :-)
-- 
Kristian Hermansen