Re: Bug#519006: breaks dump builds, too
Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:
> On 09.06.2010 12:02, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote:
>> Matthias Klose<doko@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On 08.06.2010 20:02, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>>>> This prevents dump from building on mips/mipsel, which means the version
>>>> of dump in testing is now months out of date.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an estimate for when this bug will be fixed?
>>>
>>> this is up to the debian-mips maintainers to answer.
>>>
>>> is there different behaviour when all objects involved in the link are
>>> rebuilt with binutils from experimental?
>>
>> hmm... Why are you talking about binutils ? From what I remember, the
>> patch fixing the issue is in gcc 4.5
>
> reference?
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10144#c6
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519006#97
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519006#111
>
>> and someone said it won't be easy to backport it.
>
> so what do you propose?
>
> - drop mips as a release architecture?
> - do you volunteer to make gcc-4.5 ready for inclusion
> in mips and fix any resulting RC-critical issue?
I'm no gcc or binutils hacker. I've reported what I understood on the
issue in order to help seeing it fixed. My mail was not intended to
offense you at all. Unfortunately, it looks like it was not well
perceived so I will stop replying to this bug. I'm not using Debian on
my mips boxes after all...
Arnaud
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