On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > Starting from the observation that a pre-release debian pacakge of > root-system and the current xaralx (non-free) pacakge fail to build > from source on G5 powerpc machines but not on G4, I started to get > worried that that kind of failures would be more widespread. > > The core of the problem is that the configure scripts sometimes mistake > the build system type to be powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu instead of > powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu. I am wondering similar things happen on sparc > running a 32-bit userland with a 64-bits kernel, hence the crosspost. > > To investigate a bit more, I am rebuilding the maching with a cowbuildd, > and in this email, I would like to give preliminary results before the > week-end.
Interesting, notice that Andreas Jochens has gotten a serie of patches applied to some packages for his pure-64 effort. I wonder if this effort helps in this case, or causes problems. Do you know what exactly is causing this problem ? Or could you list the 140 packages which you already detected to be problematic ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]