Re: Bug#730833: u-boot: FTBFS on kfreebsd
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:35:09PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> On 18/02/2014 19:11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > Looking for help from the *bsd porters on this... We haven't seen a
> > successful build of u-boot on kfreebsd since mid-2012...
> >
> > The short of it is a bunch of header files that aren't present on Debian
> > GNU/kFreeBSD are required for building u-boot-tools. Upstream u-boot has
> > essentially copied a bunch of header files from linux sources. The current
> > best patch we have is to copy *more* header files, but this seems like a bad
> > idea... Droppping u-boot-tools on kfreebsd-* would be a regression from wheezy.
>
> Are you sure u-boot is supposed to build on anything other than Linux? The kind
> of software package that embeds copies of Linux headers is not generally
> intended to be portable...
Well, u-boot-tools could technically be useable on any architecture. Is it
actually useful? Quite possibly not.
If the best thing is to drop non-linux architectures, I'd be fine with that.
I don't want to drop architectures from the packaging without asking porters
first.
live well,
vagrant
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