Re: perl 5.8.2-2 & mips buildd

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:58:45AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:03:39PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > > > 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
> 
> Surely glibc now builds against the linux-kernel-headers package (i.e.
> 2.6), not whatever happens to be on the buildd?

That's good, then the 2nd step can be left out. But the perl runtime
tests still need new kernel and new libc to succeed.


Thiemo