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Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc



On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > We already have porters.  I started as one.  You don't need a package
> > to register as a developer; you just need a way to help.
> 
> well, then perhaps I have misunderstood the prerequisites for being a
> developer. If there are no objections then I will apply for a developer.
> But do I reallyyyy need to read all the mail in debian-devel? it would
> take me all day!

Theoretically one is supposed to, but a lot don't.  In fact, until my
life calms down a bit, I'm off of -devel.

> > What are you doing to egcs 1.1.1, out of curiousity?  And is there
> > really no 1.1.1 in the archive yet for powerpc?  If there is, my
> > apologies; I've gotten very behind lately.  I'll try to update my local
> > source tree.
> 
> well, seeing that it is not there -as a ppc package I mean- I wanted to
> try out why. It fails to build with no errors, and stops at a configure in
> gcc/p/rts!! I overcame this -a quick hack- but then it fails at comparing
> stage2 & stage3 compilers at calls.o. I need to give it a second closer
> look. Tell me if you need details.

If there is a compiler error in compare, something is SERIOUSLY wrong. 
If something is seriously wrong with egcs 1.1.1 on powerpc, I will not
fix it.  I'll upload a snapshot of pre-1.2 instead.  Those are
extroardinarily improved over our last batch of compiler troubles...


Dan

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|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|     CMU, CS class of 2002      |
|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __   Part-Time Systems Programmer  |
|         dan@debian.org         |  |        drow@cs.cmu.edu         |
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