These numbers are very close to the same for k6
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> > Of the 632 packages 498 compiled OK and 134 had some
> > problem. I classified the "problem" packages in the
> > following categories:
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> > Architecture_is_not_included: 23
> > File_contains_non-printabable_characters: 15
> > common: 96
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> Very interesting, thanks for doing all those builds!
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> One thing you should watch for -- many packages will compile fine, but
> completely bomb because there are assumptions in the source code about
> integers being the same size as pointers.
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> If it is easy, could you consider adding another category to the above:
> packages which compile but emit warnings similar to:
> "pointer cast to integer of different size"
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> I wonder if RedHat has patches for their Alpha packages...
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> Regards,
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