On 10/24/11 15:27, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>> We had that port in FB1, but later cleaned it up. And I see no 
>> reasons to return to it.
> I'd suggest to not put too much effort into that or any other port. 
> Let people interested in the port submit patches. I hope at least 
> there is an implementation ID that is available for use?
>

Yes and no. There was no port for 68k linux, but were for Apollo and
Sun. In head that's nto a problem at all, what about 2.5 - I suppose
adding ID for it should not cause problems.


> As I understand it, the request is from a Debian/m68k porter, who aims 
> at reaching high availability ratio for the port in order to make it 
> "active" again (m68k was officially deprecate when the security 
> support for Debian 3.1 (the last release with m68k) was stopped in 
> March 2008).
>

BTW, there is alive CPU for embedded systems with arch, compatible with 68k.
Therefore may be we all will have to make it active again.

> Since so many "core" packages need Firebird to build (php5, qt, mono), 
> they are trying to make Firebird available in order to not stop port 
> progress to greater archive coverage. The other possible approach is 
> to stop the depending core packages build their Firebird functionality 
> and move on, but this is somewhat last resort.
>
> I hope this brings some background and makes intentions clearer.
>

Main problem is that like that porter reported, gdb in that port does
not do expected things like showing stack traces. Therefore looks like
w/o serious efforts ports to that system are problematic. At least w/o
my serious efforts.


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