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



On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:50:02AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:20:19 -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> said:
> 
>   Branden> [debian-ia64: I do not subscribe to this list] On Fri, Jan
>   Branden> 24, 2003 at 07:30:43PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>   >> If you asked me, this has Dave Miller's name written all over
>   >> it...  ;-)
> 
>   Branden> Hmmm.  :)
> 
> Actually, I'm wondering whether my "theory" is holding any water: Dave
> Miller is using the /emul prefix on SPARC64, so there shouldn't be any
> need for this gross hack (we do the same on ia64 linux for handling
> 32-bit x86 objects).
> 
>   Branden> Okay.  It's possible that this has since been fixed in
>   Branden> XFree86 CVS HEAD, then.  I'll check.
> 
> Let's hope so.  That code definitively looked gross.

Bad news.  XFree86 CVS HEAD still had this bogus code as of yesterday.

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G. Branden Robinson                |    Kissing girls is a goodness.  It is
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    a growing closer.  It beats the
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