Re: ROOT 5.16 in unstable?

[Dirk Van Hertem <dirk.vanhertem@ieee.org>]

Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 17:13 -0700, Tim Gershon wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering about the progress to get ROOT 5.16 into unstable?
> >     
>
> Not good at the moment.   The biggest problem is, that I have very
> little time to devote to that work.   
>
> The second problem is, that the ROOT packages fail to build on hppa,
> mips, and mipsel, at least.   I've tried to add the appropriate lines to
> the configure script, but I have no idea if it will work, as I do not
> have access to machines of that architecture. 
>
> If anyone has machines like that, hppa, mips, and mipsel, and could try
> to compile the packages from sources available at 
>
>         deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib
>   
I will try to build it on a hppa B132L (very slow machine, with limited 
memory) somewhere during this weekend. I will also try to build it on a 
sparc if that would be of help.

Dirk
> it would be a big help.   If no-one on this list has access to machines
> like that, perhaps some one can suggest how to go about testing it.  
>
> Thanks. 
>
> In the mean time, you can use the mirror at 
>
>         deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib
>         
> for i386 and amd64 packages. 
>
> Yours,
>
>   


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