Re: status of ruby1.9 on hppa
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Dear Security team,
Hi all,
> ruby1.9 isn't autobuildable on lenny: it triggers a kernel issue, likely
> to be caused by hppa's partial NPTL support. The result is a few kernel
> backtraces, and sometimes a kernel panic.
as far as I can tall, Carlos O'Donnell is working on adding NPTL support
to HPPA without breaking linuxthread compatibility, which is considered
a requirement to skip a major libc transition. Of course this work is
not targeted to lenny.
cheers,
Domenico
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