Re: Mozilla M14!
> I've recently hooked up my netwinder to my DSL network at home, and updated it
> to the latest frozen. Is there a build success page from the build machine, or
> a place showing stuff that needs work? I'm no kernel hacker, but I'd like to
> help out.
The ARM port is coming along nicely. There is a list of packages
that have unsigned char problems. If you pop over to my ARM page,
http://www.federated.com/~jim/arm/index.html you will find a list
of packages with unsigned char problems. It would be a great service
to have someone go through each of the afflicted packages, make a patch,
and send it to the Debian bug tracking system for that package.
You will want to prepare a nice paragraph about why unsigned characters
are legal and how even on signed char systems the code is usually a
problem if you encounter a character set that uses 0xff. (Almost all
of the problems are people downcasting getchar() to a char before
comparing to EOF. I need to have some "EOF is an (int) damn it"
bumper stickers made up. :-)
I have heard that the PPC port also has this problem, so it should
fix them as well.
On that same page you will also find the 'busted' packages listed and
a one line synopsis of the problem. I suspect we have all the popular
packages but three (gdb, accelerated x server, mozilla) working, but if
you see one of your favorites on the busted list feel free to attack it.
You also retrieve the build log for the last time I tried to build it
to see more details without building it yourself.
--
Jim Studt, President
The Federated Software Group, Inc.
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