Re: perl 5.8.2-2 & mips buildd
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:03:39PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:58:16PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:05:49AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > > > i see that perl 5.8.2-2 is marked "Not-For-Us" on mips buildd.
> > > >
> > > > why it is in this state? it blocks the build of a lot of software.
> > >
> > > I'm told that getting it past the test suite requires a newer kernel,
> > > which our mips buildds don't currently have installed.
> >
> > Yes, at least on mipsel it needs a newer kernel. On mips there was an
> > additional problem with glibc, for which a patch was in the works but
> > I currently do not know whether it is already in the current unstable
> > glibc. Thiemo?
>
> Should be:
>
> glibc (2.3.2.ds1-8) unstable; urgency=low
>
> [...]
> - Fix msqid_ds on MIPS. Dpatch from Guido Guenther, patch by
> Thiemo Seufer (Closes: #215273, #200215, #217593).
If this was built with kernel headers < 2.4.22 it is still broken.
The mips buildd needs to
- update its build environment with the 2.4.22 kernel package
- build glibc
- update its build environment with the newly built libc6
- build perl
- rebuild all other users of msqid_ds
Thiemo
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