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Re: rageircd ftbfs on alpha, cannot find epoll system call



On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:48:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:58:46PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > rageircd fails to build on alpha, "Cannot find epoll system call for
> > socket engine". Epoll is the only socket engine that is stable on
> > other architectures, and thus rageircd has changed to use epoll.
> 
> > Is this a porting issue? Or do I need to have an architecture-specific
> > dpatch to use a different socket engine on alpha?
> 
> epoll is specific to Linux 2.6.  You should not expect it to be available on
> buildds for *any* architecture (except amd64) until after the release of
> etch; packages must be able to build on buildds running in a chroot against
> the previous stable release, and they must install and run when installed
> against the previous stable release to support partial upgrades.

That is bad news.

Greetings
Marc

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