Re: etch-m68k and newer packages
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Ingo J?rgensmann wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:10:49AM -0600, Stephen R. Marenka wrote:
> > On Fri, November 27, 2009 3:12 am, Ingo J??rgensmann wrote:
> > > On a sidenote it seems that Arrakis and Spice aren't building
> > > packages anymore. Are they still needed?
> > Sid is broken last I checked. I haven't really seen a great deal of
> > interest in getting it fixed. We haven't built anything in some months
> > I believe. It's a bummer.
>
> Hmpf... so, currently it doesn't make much sense to keep the machines
> running, until some issues are solved?
>
There are some packages that I'd like to see built under etch-m68k. From
the gcc-4.2 build failures that Stephen showed us, I have my doubts about
packages in the testing/unstable suites.
I'd like to see some etch-m68k buildds put to work on the NPTL tool chain.
I was able to cross-compile the debian sources plus TLS/NPTL patches.
There's still a couple of issues. Firstly the ABI is not finalized. But
that doesn't mean that the exercise is not useful. In particular,
binutils-2.19.51 can be uploaded. The new kernel and kernel headers would
then be needed, but cannot be uploaded.
Another issue is one of the requirements of eglibc-2.10, which is gcc >=
4.2. One way around that is to patch out that version check for building
the glibc headers. Given the headers, it is possible to build gcc-4.4.
The third issue that comes to mind is gcc itself. It seems to me that all
gcc packages should drop the finline-gnu89 patch that only m68k uses. I
think it is there solely for glibc-2.5 (and I don't trust that binary
anyway).
Finn
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