On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:02:13AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:45:52AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > If the alpha or m68k people are having compile-time problems, I haven't > > heard a peep out of anyone about it. > It built just fine on m68k, but it does not work. I asked other m68k people > to try it out, but there was no response I remember, so I do not know its a > problem only on my machine, but I think its generic. > Remember the libpci problem? I could not start hacking a workaround, since > it fails before that step now, when starting X, it > breaks/crashes/you-name-it when trying to load the libbitmap module. I > posted the error message on debian-x (for 4.0.1-something?), its still the > same error. Even with glibc2.2, and maybe also gcc-2.95.3. I would check > again with 4.0.2-2 if you release it, but I don't expect any magic > improvements to happen. No answer from Egbert. Looks like a deadlock to me. Hrm, well, that kinda sucks. Prod him again. Is there anybody who still does bus-level hacking on the m68k anymore? Perhaps we can beg Geert? > > I'd really like XFree86 4.x to go into testing. But it's not going happen > > until these 3 architectures build it. > I could upload the debs just to please you/get X into testing, but it might > break lots of m68k installations. Or maybe not, perhaps noone is running > woody/testing/unstable/you-name-it on m68k? Shall I upload those debs? I say upload anyway. The client side should be okay. The server side problems should be fixable if we can marshal some people to attack the them. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux | then believe; if you wish to be a branden@debian.org | devotee of truth, then inquire. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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