Re: xfs,powerpc, gcc (was Re: RaiserFS PPC status)
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:52:11AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > This one bites me a bit. O_DIRECT is missing from bits/fcntl.h on powerpc
> > (at least on my installation and i sure i didn't mess with libc6-dev). It's
> > sid/unstable branch. I don't remeber if the intel box i compiled xfsprogs
> > was running sid/unstable or woody/testing (and this box is down right now)
> > but there was no problem in compiling xfs_mkfile..
>
> Please submit a bug against libc6-dev, maybe we'll get an explanation then. ;)
This O_DIRECT is also missing on sparc (as it came up while i exchanged
mails with Nathan Scott (debian maintainer of xfsprogs).
Good news is that Nathan Scott and me found out a way to make xfsprogs
compilable on powerpc and next debian package will have it (and i would like
to thank Nathan for his time and patience with me)
>
>
> > Is this another wierdo of PowerPC arch? (as is with varargs).
>
> varargs isn't weird on powerpc, it just happens that incorrect usage of it
> works on i386 (like too much else, e.g. its wrong endianness hides type size
> mismatches, ...) but not for us.
=o)))) one point for us for having right endianess =o)))))))
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