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RE: Bug#819069: dietlibc: FTBFS on powerpcspe due to missing FPU emulation in library



Thanks for explanation Adrian,
if needed i will share the errors but on xorg log i dont see nothing strange , same is in dmesg
if you need some please ask me what, i will send ASAP.


Luigi

> Subject: Re: Bug#819069: dietlibc: FTBFS on powerpcspe due to missing FPU emulation in library
> To: intermediadc@hotmail.com; lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca; s0407h@outlook.com
> CC: christian@iwakd.de; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> From: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 16:40:45 +0200
>
> Luigi,
>
> On 04/06/2016 03:17 PM, luigi burdo wrote:
> > i face math issues with debian jessie with e5500 P5020 64bit too
>
> We are not facing "math issues" here. We're talking about the
> dietlibc, an alternative implementation of the C library used
> on Unix systems.
>
> This library currently fails to build from source on powerpcspe
> because the FPU emulation code which was once present in libgcc
> was moved from libgcc and therefore from gcc to glibc which is why
> dietlibc can no longer use the FPU emulation code in gcc.
>
> To fix dietlibc, someone needs to implement FPU emulation
> in dietlibc for the powerpcspe target. It is not possible
> for dietlibc to directly use the FPU emulation code in
> glibc.
>
> > if the math emulation is not enabled i dont thave the desktop running
> > only the console.
> > This issue is not present on ubuntu mate/lubuntu/Xubuntu
>
> You are throwing around some observation without providing any
> error codes or further information. You are also not disclosing
> what port of Debian you are running (powerpc or ppc64), but in
> any case, the e5500 you are using does not support AltiVec/VMX
> which is why any package with Altivec support enabled will
> not work.
>
> Adrian
>
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