Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:52:01PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > > Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a
> > > > missing symbol?
> > >
> > > Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand on
> > > so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs disapeared
> > > when recompiling the faulty binaries against the proper versions of
> > > libraries so far.
> >
> > If I read between the lines right, this time it was breakage in brltty
> > on sparc, and I've removed it from the pkg-lists for sparc now.
>
> Is any arch still using brltty? Do we care about it?
Yes, Mario Lang invested effort on getting it to work with
debian-installer; without it blind users cannot install.
> Does brltty break on i386, m68k or alpha too?
Don't know.
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