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Re: libc6-sun4m



Hi Aleksi,

I also mail CC-ed to debian-glibc lists and BenC.

At Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:10:23 +0300,
Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> There's a package called libc6-sparc64 and I was wondering if you
> would have time to create and maintain another package called
> libc6-sun4m, that would be compiled with sun4m compatible gcc flags
> in Debian/Linux unstable?

Actually, I don't know sun4m issue well.  Is it sufficient to
recompile with sun4m gcc flags?

Ben, you decided to drop sun4m from the latest libc6 because of its
multiplicative performance.  Is it hard to support sun4m with sparc32
libc6?

> I personally wouldn't need libc6-dev-sun4m, but that might still
> be useful for some other people.

I also think it's not needed.

Regards,
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