Bug#178289: xfree86_4.2.1-5(unstable/ia64): FTBFS: Unknown architecture

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:20:19 -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> said:

  Branden> [debian-ia64: I do not subscribe to this list] On Fri, Jan
  Branden> 24, 2003 at 07:30:43PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
  >> If you asked me, this has Dave Miller's name written all over
  >> it...  ;-)

  Branden> Hmmm.  :)

Actually, I'm wondering whether my "theory" is holding any water: Dave
Miller is using the /emul prefix on SPARC64, so there shouldn't be any
need for this gross hack (we do the same on ia64 linux for handling
32-bit x86 objects).

  Branden> Okay.  It's possible that this has since been fixed in
  Branden> XFree86 CVS HEAD, then.  I'll check.

Let's hope so.  That code definitively looked gross.

	--david