Hello all developers, this is a quick summary of developments needed to continue on the sparc port:
1/ there is a new, binary incompatible, glibc snapshot release by the GLIBC team (see a previous post from Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). I think we *should* release it ASAP to base our new ports on it. Juan do you work on it ? 2/ perl is still libc5. I managed to build the 5.004_04 release with libc6 but it fails to load modules if the LD_BIND_NOW environment variable is not set to 1. Stephen do you work on it ? 3/ silo is still libc5. Davide Barbieri is working on it, so I hope it will release soon. 4/ new boot disks are needed to bootstrap a Debian installation. I made my first try available to ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/980226 but it's not a plain libc6 release (silo is still libc5, and the libc6 perl-base package I included in it doesn't work with dpkg-ftp) and it is a bit buggy. Some users, at least, are succeeded in installing Debian with them :-) Any comments about this short list of items are welcome. Did I miss some important points ? Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .