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Re: Bug#178289: xfree86_4.2.1-5(unstable/ia64): FTBFS: Unknown architecture



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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:30:43PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> If you asked me, this has Dave Miller's name written all over it...  ;-)

Hmmm.  :)

> The default shared objects on sparc boxes tend to be 32-bit objects,
> so the "sparcv9" postfix is needed to explicitly select the 64-bit
> shared objects.  None of that is needed for ia64.

This seems like some awfully nasty intrustion of environmental issues
into code where such things really don't belong.

>   Branden> Did the IA-64 toolchain in unstable recently change to
>   Branden> define the _LP64 symbol?
> 
> It appears to be a gcc-3.2 feature: gcc-2.96 defines __LP64__ and
> gcc-3.2 adds _LP64 on top of that.

Okay.  It's possible that this has since been fixed in XFree86 CVS HEAD,
then.  I'll check.

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