Re: Anyone running under QEMU?
Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian@mega-nerd.com> writes:
Hi,
[ foreword: please note that I'm not a DD and only using debian mipsel
from time to time in a chroot ]
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>
>> With the overwhelming support for 'outdated architectures' from other
>> DDs (not on this list) in mind, I decided to go with {open,net}BSD
>> instead for my collection of ancient machines.
>
> One of things that makes support MIPS in debian difficult is the
> lack of MIPS machines for DDs to test on.
Sure but in this case, this is a "generic" mips issue. As it already
happened in the past, PIE support in mips is only able to produce broken
binaries (bug #526961). While nobody can't be blamed for not having
fixed the binutils bugs, imho mips porters should have taken time to
look for debs built with PIE and report bugs against them. No need to
do a runtime test, it's "only" a matter of a 'grep' on build logs. I
would say (and I hope) that this was not only due to lack of time or
something like.
Arnaud
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