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Re: CPU specific/optimized Debian builds ?



Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:

> Roger Leigh <rl117@york.ac.uk> immo vero scripsit:
> 
> > > I am already doing it.
> > 
> > Great!  During my time trying, I certainly found and reported quite a lot
> > of bugs just by hand-building the packages.  This even included fairly
> > common shared libraries determining their shlibs files from the
> > _installed_ version of the library, so you had to build, install and
> > rebuild to get a valid package!  I'm sure that your efforts doing this
> > will improve Debian greatly. 
> 
> That is pretty interesting to know.
> I believe that's caused by calling dpkg-shlibdeps without
> setting the appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Yes, or dh_shlibdeps without `-l' (though LD_LIBRARY_PATH also works).

> Anyway, you can (sort of) see my progress at
> bugs.debian.org/from:dancer@netfort.gr.jp
> 
> All my bugs with build problems start with "FTBFS:"
> to make them stand out.
> There is quite a lot of them, about 200 open right now, 
> and quite many of them have patches.
> But I haven't gotten around to sending patches to all yet.

I'll make a note of this, then I won't start filing duplicates.

> There are many unresponsive maintainers, which some of 
> them I took the liberty of doing an NMU. But I can't just
> fix everything by doing an NMU on every package...

No, that would be several full-time jobs!

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