On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:11:50PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:59:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Not for every architecture, just HPPA, so this bug is "serious" rather > > than "grave". Still release-critical IMO, though. > > Thanks for correcting. "grave - doesn't run on all machines it can > be installed on" seemed right only because the offending xlib*hppa.deb > will only install on hppa machines. Hmm. You're interpreting "all" as "any" and I'm interpreting it as "every". Clearly "all" is not a good word to use there. :) > </rant on> > BTW, has anyone looked at fixing the dependencies such that > "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -nc -uc -us" doesn't clobber the previous > build? > > It's kinda annoying to have to re-start a multi-hour build when trying > to fix things. I realize this is a non-trivial issue that really has > to be driven by someone high up in the xfree86 devel team. > The entire linux kernel Makefile/build system was rewritten for 2.6 > kernels. And it actually works now. I hope it might inspire someone > in xfree86 to tackle the imake/Makefile mess as well. > </rant off> Yes, there are people that would like to do that. I think one problem is that automake is hardly a more enticing solution. :) > > You can monitor the progress of Debian XFree86 development by > > subscribing to the debian-x mailing list; > > sorry - I have to pass....I'm kinda spread thin right now with commitments > to parisc-linux and ia64-linux kernel IO stuff. Okay. Still, you can always browse the list archives: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/ > I can run builds on 650Mhz hppa boxes if I get pointed at a bk or CVS > repository and make the results available via ftp or http. > I can't exhaustively test the results though. At this point you'd need an account on my Subversion server to automate this. > Lamont is the bin-NMU expert *and* maintainer of the parisc buildd. > Lamont, can you please bin-NMU a new version of hppa xfree86 4.2.1-6 > debs to testing? I'll communicate with him on the further resolution of this. Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention. It doesn't really do much to improve my poor opinion of GCC 3.3. :( -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to branden@debian.org | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
Attachment:
pgpGkQWUhxhjg.pgp
Description: PGP signature