Re: prctl on alpha

[Khalid Aziz <khalid@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 02:24 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 11:15:47AM +0100, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> 
> > the recent debian kernels support prctl (for configuring unaligned
> > accesses). It would be wonderful to have the corresponding package build for
> > alpha, too. According to the changelog
> > (http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/prctl/prctl_1.5-1/changel
> > og , this version is in testing!) it is now available for ANY architecture.
> > But until now it only builds for hppa and ia64.
> 
> > Where is the problem and could it be enabled for etch (is this a missing
> > configuration in build)?
> 
> The package is still listed in Packages-arch-specific[1] as only belonging
> on hppa and ia64.
> 
> Lamont, could you please add alpha to the list of supported archs for prctl? 
> The Debian kernels have supported the prctl interfaces on alpha since
> version 2.6.18-3.
> 
> Thanks,

One of the goals of my last update of prctl package was to enable
building on all architectures that can support it. So please do enable
prctl build on alpha.

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Khalid