Re: Bug#186331: raising severity; was: busybox FTBTS problems
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 15:26, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:56, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > I'm raising the severity of this bug to serious, as it breaks
> > busybox-cvs build on alpha, which in turn breaks the
> > debian-installer build on alpha.
>
> If you need a quick resolution for that problem, the easiest thing would
> be to stop building a static version of busybox.
>
> I'll take a look at the adjtimex problem. However, static binaries are
> always going to be second-class citizens as far as glibc is concerned
> and you should avoid them whenever possible.
>
Ok, how about doing that? not building a static version of busybox on
alpha until this bug is resolved? (and applying the known-to-work patch
for ia64/alpha). It would get d-i building again.
Regards,
Alastair
> p.
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