On Wednesday 14 May 2008, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:12:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:05:31PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > > could we please get an ack or nack on that patch. > > > > checked linux-next and it doesn't appear there. > > > > without it currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha: > > > > perl.c: In function 'perl_construct': > > > > perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this > > > > function) -> > > > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.0-10;arch=alpha; > > > >stam p=1210252894 > > > > > > hmm it seems more userspace expects CONFIG_HZ, so it's not only a perl > > > build breakage.. > > > > anything using CONFIG_HZ is absolutely broken. go fix the package. > > > > anything using HZ should be converted to sysconf(), but i'm not about to > > go on that crusade to fix things up > > news at 11 > > okay great that the patch went into mm. i'm guessing you're thinking packages are using CONFIG_HZ when in reality they arent. the asm-alpha/param.h in 2.6.25 does: #define HZ CONFIG_HZ so anything using HZ would end up with an error message about CONFIG_HZ being undefined -mike
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