Re: re freezing powerpc
Christian Meder wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 01:50:20AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> debian/sparc at present:
> - has X albeit still slightly buggy but definitly usable, but we have to wait
> for the X revolution to settle down before we can try to rebuild a more
> recent version
>
> > - is switching glibc versions by five
>
> true for sparc, too. But I'm using a 2.0.99 cvs snapshot which is a real
> improvement for sparc:
> * the ^Z problems with bash and other signal handling oddities (sparc
> specific) are gone => we can run 2.1.x kernels on Debian/Sparc now
> * it has got a db1 interface
> * the exp function segfault (sparc specific) is fixed
> ...
>
> > - has no working base tarball, let alone installer
>
> sparc has got a working but _very_ old installation set (to be updated)
Yes I know that, but I'm waiting for fixed glibc/bash before working on new
installation set. I recently bought a SCSI CD-recorder, so I will also be
able to build & try CD images for sparc.
BTW, do/should we have to use a 2.1 kernel ?
I heard latest 2.1 releases fix the sun4c slowdown, support Turbosparc, ...
Anybody already packaged one ?
> > - has nothing approaching the set of packages it could given a little
> > more time
>
> ditto for sparc. But I guess you could call it a reasonable subset by release
> time.
I hope availability of the new glibc will speed up the building process.
Regards.
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