Hi Christian, I am a DD and we can do this together when I am in Copenhagen for the NorduGrid conference (http://indico.hep.lu.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=318) later in September. I am CCing to Anders who is also interested in Debian at your site. Frankly, alone for the immense resources that ROOT requires, I do not see much of a chance to get it compiled on, say, Motorola 68k platforms. Well, ok, maybe a 2020 mobile phone would easily handle ROOT's compilation :o) Also, to my understanding it is not a requirement for the packages to compile on a particular platform from day 1. It is only that subsequent releases of ROOT must compile on those architectures that they have been successfully compiled on before. I am not a user of ROOT, I just know how important it is in the grid computing world which is of my prime concern. I hence wished that there was another sponsor around. You can fall back on me though. Best regards Steffen On Thursday 30 August 2007 09:42:02 Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 17:13 -0700, Tim Gershon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering about the progress to get ROOT 5.16 into unstable? > > Not good at the moment. The biggest problem is, that I have very > little time to devote to that work. > > The second problem is, that the ROOT packages fail to build on hppa, > mips, and mipsel, at least. I've tried to add the appropriate lines to > the configure script, but I have no idea if it will work, as I do not > have access to machines of that architecture. > > If anyone has machines like that, hppa, mips, and mipsel, and could try > to compile the packages from sources available at > > deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib > > it would be a big help. If no-one on this list has access to machines > like that, perhaps some one can suggest how to go about testing it. > > Thanks. > > In the mean time, you can use the mirror at > > deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib > > for i386 and amd64 packages. > > Yours, > > -- > ___ | Christian Holm Christensen > > |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- > | > | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > > _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 > _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 404 > ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm -- Dr. Steffen Möller University of Lübeck Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics Ratzeburger Allee 160 23538 Lübeck Germany T: +49 451 500 5504 F: +49 451 500 5502 moeller@inb.uni-luebeck.de
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