Re: Improving ARM64 support in Debian
+++ Martin Michlmayr [2015-07-21 17:01 -0700]:
[quick reply as I am on sabatical and mostly offline]
> 2) Out of date configure scripts
>
> During the rebuild, over 160 packages failed to build on ARM64 because
> of out-of-date autoconf and libtool configure scripts. Most of these
> bugs have been reported over a year ago by the ARM64 porters (Matthias
> Klose from Canonical/Ubuntu and Wookey from ARM/Linaro) and the
> PowerPC porters. These are easy to solve by autoreconfing packages;
> maybe we should coordinate NMUs at some point.
I've been slowly working through the backlog of these as I get time,
but would welcome anyone else having a go. Many are very easy,
although we may increasingly find oursleves left with ones that need
more work to do properly (i.e update autofoo to work with current
autotools). Bodging is easier and may be reasonble for code no-one
really cares about anymore.
This page contains lots of helpful advice (and more could be collected
there): https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf
> I hope this update is useful.
Indeed - thanks for that - especially going through all the bugs to
make them properly taged etc. I've been meaning to do that for ages :-)
We can talk more about this at the ARM BOF.
Wookey
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