On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:44:55PM +0000, Helge Deller wrote: > CC'ed: parisc-linux kernel development list > > Andreas Barth wrote: > >during the upload of python2.5, the build failed on hppa due to stalls > >in the test suite, see http://bugs.debian.org/483042 and > >http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=python2.5&ver=2.5.2-5&arch=hppa&stamp=1211583145&file=log > >(Matthias "fixed" that bug by disabling the testsuite, not something > >that makes > >us happy.) > >After that happened, we asked on #parisc if someone could take a look, > >and we were told that linuxthreads is currently unmaintained for hppa, > >and the issue could only be fixed by moving to nptl and we need to do an > >(incompatible) abi change in glibc. Such a change would be really > >unfortunate, and we hope that every other roads have been evaluated > >first (like trying to understand why python on linuxthreads fails on > >hppa but not on e.g. kfreebsd). We also would like to be sure that ntpl > >is really better than linuxthreads for python2.5 before a transition. > > My personal feeling is, that a switch to NPTL is probably the best > solution. Even if this involves a abi change. > Maybe experts on NPTL could comment here? The NPTL in glibc works well afaict, the downside is the ABI bump, because doing the archive-wide rebuild as a 66% chance to hurt the port so bad that it will not be ready in time for lenny. This is a last resort measure, and everything _must_ be tried before, because even "losing" a week trying to fix linuxthreads is way faster than rebuilding the whole archive which is rather a matter of months and risking no HPPA at all in the end. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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