Re: many packages held for alpha
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 07:33:21PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> > > The main problem is
> > > that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the
> > > archive is unbuildable on Alpha.
> >
> > See your private e-mail. I may have a handle on this beast. Won't
> > burden the rest of the list with my speculation unless it pans out :-).
>
> Bob's speculation did pan out and we now have a working cmake! Thank
> you Bob, you have enabled Alpha to survive another day.
>
> The build daemons are now working hard out building the almost 1000
> source packages we had got behind on Alpha.
>
> Cheers
> Michael.
Looks like my local build with the patch applied failed for some reason,
but said reason makes no sense, so I'll just set it aside and wait for
the official package to arrive :-). Thanks!
--Bob
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