Re: Bug#93201: arch is set to i386 instead of any

[Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@atdot.org>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 12:02:18AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:21:36AM +0200, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:16:03AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > > Package: jslaunch
> > > Severity: serious
> > > 
> > > the package is set to i386 only when it builds fine on alpha.
> > 
> >  jslaunch cannot be built on m68k, nor any other system that does not
> >  support 'inb' or 'ioperm' system calls due to lack of the IO ports
> >  'feature'. So Architecture should not be any, at least m68k and powerpc
> >  should be excluded.
> 
> That's because those archs have no use for them, and you can safely
> ignore them on those archs for the most part. IOW:
> 
> #if defined(i386) || defined(alpha)
> 	ioperm(...);
> #endif

 That fixed sparc, but powerpc and m68k also lack inb instruction.

 I have added porting.txt file trying to descrive the current situation
 to porters.


 Thanks you all

	Manuel

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