Oct 18 10:43:15 bleu /bsd: invalid linux syscall 243 run by (hello_6.02_i686-:7420) UID(2300) EUID(2300), parent (mksh:30476) UID(2300) EUID(2300)
Oct 18 10:43:15 bleu /bsd: signal 12 received by (hello_6.02_i686-:7420) UID(2300) EUID(2300), parent (mksh:30476) UID(2300) EUID(2300)

Okay, I must admit I’m _not_ running GNU/Linux, but
the BSD kernel is perfectly able to run some of its
programmes, such as Opera, Openoffice 2.0, and Java™
1.3. (Older programmes of course have better chances.)

Now I see the hello application is statially linked,
which usually helps, but probably against “too new”
libraries. I don’t know what operating system you are
using for the apps, but if it’s Debian, try sarge for
compiling and linking the apps together.

Another possibility would be for me to compile them
myself, for my platform natively, instead of using
the Linux emulation of the kernel. Is this possible
for the Pirates apps?

I have run a few projects (WCG’s Rice, Spinhenge even
with graphics) successfully in the past on MirBSD, so
BOINC in general works.
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Oct 18 10:43:15 bleu /bsd: invalid linux syscall 243 run by (hello_6.02_i686-:7420) UID(2300) EUID(2300), parent (mksh:30476) UID(2300) EUID(2300)
Oct 18 10:43:15 bleu /bsd: signal 12 received by (hello_6.02_i686-:7420) UID(2300) EUID(2300), parent (mksh:30476) UID(2300) EUID(2300)

Now I see the hello application is statially linked,
which usually helps, but probably against “too new”
libraries. I don’t know what operating system you are
using for the apps, but if it’s Debian, try sarge for
compiling and linking the apps together.

Another possibility would be for me to compile them
myself, for my platform natively, instead of using
the Linux emulation of the kernel. Is this possible
for the Pirates apps?

I have run a few projects (WCG’s Rice, Spinhenge even
with graphics) successfully in the past on MirBSD, so
BOINC in general works.

Linux builds are on Fedora Core 4, which is pretty old too.

Windows beats Linux in this regard, I'm afraid. I can build apps on W2K and they will run on Vista and Win95.

mirabilos wrote:

Another possibility would be for me to compile them
myself, for my platform natively, instead of using
the Linux emulation of the kernel. Is this possible
for the Pirates apps?

It's definitely possible, and the best way to do it, if you are up to it.

You would have to get the BOINC source out of SVN and build the libraries.
Then get the Pirates app code out of our CVS and build against those libraries. Then run the app using the "anonymous platform" mechanism. This is all pretty well documented, but your feedback as you do it would help improve the docs. Are you up for it?

Good. That means the client core and manager work. But you need to be able to build the libraries, which should be straightforward.

And maybe I'll have to find an old machine to test BSD on. Sometime...

Oh, and:
• which BOINC version should I use, ATM it’s 5.10.45 by request
of the WCG people, but I could upgrade to svn HEAD as well
• which of the apps should be built?

http://pirates.spy-hill.net/result.php?resultid=1870611

It waited well ☺

Now I’m going to have to change the port of BOINC to build
the graphics support libraries, but I’ll only do that if
you tell me if 5.x stable series is ok or 6.x is desired.
Plus I can’t do that if it requires wxwidgets, but ISTR it
is only used for the GUI, so it should™ work.
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Both i386-ecce-mirbsd and i386-unknown-midnightbsd platforms work, FWIW.
More details see the mail.

http://pirates.spy-hill.net/result.php?resultid=1870611

Now I’m going to have to change the port of BOINC to build
the graphics support libraries, but I’ll only do that if
you tell me if 5.x stable series is ok or 6.x is desired.

Plus I can’t do that if it requires wxwidgets, but ISTR it
is only used for the GUI, so it should™ work.

Okay, thanks for the information. I have been aboard for a while…
although most of the results were on GNU/Linux until now.

If you’re interested, I can provide MirBSD and MidnightBSD binaries
for the apps once I succeeded testing it. (Writing the app_info.xml
is annoying, btw.) I might also know people using OpenBSD, NetBSD,
Solaris, DragonFly BSD, and possibly, FreeBSD. We can pioneer ☺

When I’m done, I’ll do a cvs diff on the tree and send that to you,
as things did not compile 100% cleanly, initially, even with that
rather old g++ 3.4.6 of mine.

When I’m done, I’ll do a cvs diff on the tree and send that to you, as things did not compile 100% cleanly, initially, even with that
rather old g++ 3.4.6 of mine.

Actually, while I did change the Makefiles to use “B)”,
there are no other diffs there.

You use $+ which is a GNUism in some, but I just called
it using gmake then.

Oh, btw, say hello to my SPARCstation 20:

http://pirates.spy-hill.net/result.php?resultid=1878544

The page moved to:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120607084811/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/help/#build
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And http://web.archive.org/web/20120616083858/http://www.spy-hill.net/pub/myers/src/boinc/ has got the sources… but only up to yello 6.05 :(

Where are all those link targets gone…?

Update: Aaaah! CVS still works, yay!

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@spy-hill.net/usr/local/cvsroot/boinc checkout src/apps/yello.d
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Arrrrrreporting success, Capt’n!

http://pirates.spy-hill.net/result.php?resultid=4864005 finished, once again, using yello-current from CVS on MirBSD-current, still with the old BOINC 5 but with graphics this time (I quickly ported freeglut to make it build, although I have no idea how to actually display those graphics…).

Great ride. I could now put this on some FreeWRT embedded MIPS router boxen or something. And another classic 32-bit Sun SPARCstation…
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