Re: debian ppc64
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:32:26AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:23 -0200, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:44:47 +0100, Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de> wrote:
> > > On 04-Dec-08 11:34, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > I have prepared a patch for the glibc package which makes glibc compile
> > > and work for ppc64. The patch can be found at
> > >
> > > http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/patches/glibc_2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.gcc4.patch
> > >
> > > The patch creates a large 22 MB file
> > >
> > > 'debian/patches/10_cvs20041202.dpatch'
> > >
> > > with the diff between glibc-2.3.2 and the current glibc CVS version
> > > as well as a list of Debian patches 'debian/patches/00list.ppc64' which
> > > still have to be applied to the current CVS glibc. This '00list.ppc64'
> > > is used _instead_ of the normal '00list' for ppc64. The rest of the
> > > patch basically adds 'ppc64' at the appropriate places. Please note that
> > > this patch is work in progress. It is only two days old and it will
> > > likely need some changes.
> > I was using gcc-3.4 and a much smaller (attached) patch was enough to
> > build it. I agree that it is better to upgrade llibc but a simple
> > patch can be merged first.
> >
> > Is there some big problem the in current debian glibc that I haven't hit?
>
> Appart that it's completely outdated, doesn't support TLS and NPTL on
> ppc32, probably doesn't support altivec in contexts, etc... well ...
Once sarge is released, things will improve on this point. Sarge has been kind
of frozen for over one year, as far as glibc is concerned, so ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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