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Re: QL-Swig failed again on mips



On 30 May 2007 at 17:17, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
| > | which is a soon-to-be fixed bug in libc. I believe the specialcase for MIPS
| > | was introduced back when the buildds were too memory limited. Since the
| > | system I tested on (a bcm91250a with 1GB RAM) is the same hardware as our
| > | current mips/mipsel buildds I believe it is safe to remove the special
| > | handling (it might need to stay for arm/m68k, though).
| > 
| > Could we possibly have a discussion on whether we should exclude the three
| > related packages
| > 
| > 	quantlib
| > 	quantlib-swig
| > 	rquantlib
| > 
| > from building on mips/mipsel and arm?  They are already excluded on m68k (but
| > then m68k is sort-of a moot point anyway).
| > 
| > Please don't misunderstand my point of view. I like mips. I think I'll get a
| > 'slug' box, and I run a linksys router.  It's just that QuantLib is really
| > meant for decent-size workstations. 
| 
| Given that MIPS today spans the range from said Linksys router over workstation
| class machines like the buildds up to a SiCortex SC5832
| <http://www.sicortex.com/prod_sc5832.shtml> I can't follow your rationale.

Incidentally, I caught a msg from Sicortex on another list today and looked
at this.

So how about if I re-assign the bug report to the toolchain, rather than the
package in question now that we learned from you that libc6 is the one with
the bug?   

Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison



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