On 02/20/2011 11:33 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
On 20/02/11 at 10:23 -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote:
> I manage the group that develops FIS GT.M upstream.
Although there has
> been no evidence of activity on the Debian lists in the
last six months,
> there has been activity upstream.
>
> Here is the issue: just as it takes a gcc binary to
compile gcc, building
> GT.M has a bootstrapping step and it takes a GT.M binary
to build GT.M.
> This appears to be a catch-22 situation for GT.M
(although it is
> apparently not a catch-22 situation for gcc). We have
been trying to use
> Python for the bootstrap step, but still do not have a
successful GT.M
> build yet. If you can advise us on a way to break out of
the catch-22
> situation - what it would essentially take is an initial
exception to
> allow is to use a GT.M binary to build GT.M from source -
we can make a
> lot more progress, and progress visible to you.
Otherwise, please leave
> GT.M in the ITP stage, and once we are able to use Python
successfully to
> build GT.M, there will be progress that is visible to
you.
I don't think that this is an issue at all. You could just
build GT.M
manually on every architecture to do the initial upload. Once
there's a
version in the archive, then new versions will be built with
the
previous version.
[KSB] Are you sure about it. That was not my understanding of how
the system worked, but if you are right, it does simplify things.
Can you say definitively, point me to a discussion and/or connect me
with someone who can? Thank you very much.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
- Lucas
--
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.
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