Re: etch-m68k and newer packages
On Sat, November 28, 2009 7:12 pm, fthain@telegraphics.com.au wrote:
> 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.
So binutils-2.19.51 should be built with which compiler? Any patches needed?
> 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.
So we need to build eglibc with gcc 4.2 or 4.4? Any patches against debian
sid?
> 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).
Should this be after we get eglibc-2.10 functional? All we have right now
is glibc-2.5, right?
Thanks,
Stephen
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