On my PowerComputing PowerBase sooped up with a PowerLogix G4/400 CPU and running YellowDog Linux 3.01, I have compiled several versions of the boinc and seti_boinc source codes, the most recent being
boinc_public_cvs-2004-07-16.tar.gz and seti_boinc-client-cv-2004-07-15.tar.gz. Source files extracted to ~/seti_boinc/boinc and ~/seti_boinc/seti_boinc respectively.

./configure in the boinc directory gives no errors and make in the same directory yields only the following warnings:

dhrystone.C: In function `void Proc_2(DS_DATA&, One_Fifty*)':
dhrystone.C:255: warning: `Enumeration Enum_Loc' might be used uninitialized in
this function
dhrystone.C: In function `bool Func_2(DS_DATA&, char*, char*)':
dhrystone.C:371: warning: `Capital_Letter Ch_Loc' might be used uninitialized
in this function
../db/db_base.C:258:1: warning: multi-line comment
../db/db_base.C:258:1: warning: multi-line comment
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./configure in the seti_boinc directory gives no errors and make in the same directory yields only the following warnings:

Makefile:132: dependencies: No such file or directory
Makefile:77: dependencies: No such file or directory
indent: unknown option "-c"
indent: unknown option "-c"
-------------------------------------------------------

After repeated occurances of the following:

2004-07-17 20:58:55 [SETI@home] Finished download of 12ja04ab.2788.834.11064.62
2004-07-17 20:58:55 [SETI@home] Approximate throughput 262173.030860 bytes/sec
2004-07-17 20:58:55 [SETI@home] Starting computation for result 12ja04ab.2788.834.11064.62_4 using setiathome version 3.10
2004-07-17 20:58:55 [SETI@home] execv(../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_3.10.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) failed: -1
2004-07-17 20:58:56 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 12ja04ab.2788.834.11064.62_4 (process exited with code 2 (0x2))
2004-07-17 20:58:56 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 12ja04ab.2788.834.11064.62_4 (process exited with code 2 (0x2))
2004-07-17 20:58:56 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-07-17 20:58:56 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-07-17 20:58:56 [SETI@home] Computation for result 12ja04ab.2788.834.11064.62 finished
2004-07-17 20:59:57 [---] Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
2004-07-17 20:59:57 [SETI@home] Requesting 70672 seconds of work

I decided to try the setiathome_test (and setiathome-3.10.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu -standalone) as the instructions suggested. I found it necessary to copy the files client_state.xml, global_prefs.xml, init_data.xml and account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml as well as the slots directory to the test directory alongside the reference_work_unit.sah, setiathome_test and setiathome-3.10.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu files, before the standalone test would run. I DID rename the reference_work_unit.sah to work_unit.sah.

The test run created the files: boinc_lockfile, state.sah, stderr.txt, result.sah and finally boinc_finish_called.

The contents of stderr.txt are as follows:

Standalone mode, so not using shared memory.
SETI@Home Informational message -9 result_overflow
NOTE: The number of results detected exceeds the storage space allocated.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can anyone tell me if this is a success or failure?

If a success, why am I still getting the "2004-07-17 20:58:56 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result
12ja04ab.2788.834.11064.62_4 (process exited with code 2 (0x2)) " errors?

I am virtually certain the problem is here:
[SETI@home] execv(../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_3.10.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) failed: -1

Does anyone know what causes this error?

Thanks.