On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote: > Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> I have a nice Debian Ultra Sparc 1 box setup now and was > > Ben> going to compile glibc 2.1.1-0.1 (from potato). Are we ready > > Ben> to make this upgrade in the dist yet? If so I can NMU it > > Ben> afterwards. > > > > Given that we've been running pre2.1 glibc forever, why not? > > I was wondering if anybody was going to do this. A few caveats: > > Install the latest sparc egcs first (2.91.60-5 works fine - i ). > Otherwise the "crypt()" functions will be broken. (The test case is > attached. Not that gcc is still broken, but glibc uses egcs.) > > After you compile and install glibc, compile and install the latest > egcs from potato. (This will probably entail compiling and installing > the latest dejagnu from experimental - this might not be 100% > necessary if they didn't add any versioned symbols since 2.0.105.) > > Then test everything. Make sure apt and dselect work (good tests of > C++ stuff). Note that compatibility isn't guaranteed between 2.1 > betas and 2.1, but I think 2.0.105 is late enough to be fully > compatible.
Noted. > If you want, I can take care of compiling this. (I did it once about > a month ago, but that was with an older, broken version of egcc, so > crypt didn't work and, hence, I didn't upload anything.) It's fine, I'll get it uploaded tonight. -- ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Core - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems The Choice of the GNU Generation ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - --