Re: libc6-sun4m
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:01:34PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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?
GOTO, sun4m is already supported by Debian's standard debian-sparc
packages.
What this guy wants is a v8 optimized package, which is already in the
works. We have to test and finalize the -opt packages for libc6. I'm
already taking care of all of this, so please just leave the sparc stuff
over here :)
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