[[ Returning this private reply to the mailing list. ]] On Friday 03 October 2008 14:18:53 you wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote: > > At this point in time we've got KDE 4.1.1 up and running, presumably for > > both amd64 and SPARC (I haven't heard any success stories out of > > SPARC-land and the U45 has been off). > > Yeah, I haven't powered on the Sparc's in a while cause of some consistent > build errors.
I have never understood the systematic SPARC failures. Once I have my builds up and running again on nv91 amd64 (see other mail) I am going to try my stuff on the U45 under S10. That's a pretty big gap to bridge. Getting the reporting consistent (see below, also) is important. On the remainder of the SPARC front, I think we will have some good news there soon; there's some space opening up at my offices with SPARC compute power. > > - Some of the dependencies are now quite dated > > yep. But more than that, we find out little incompatibilities (like > the iconv issue > that took a couple of weeks to get fixed) It's still tough to cover all of the possibilities and variations in architecture and OS. This is why I'd really like to make building packages with the standard package tools with our defined sets of flags a priority -- even preferably with some kind of nightly builds and checks, but that kind of QA is way out of our manpower league right now. > > - The means to build the packages is rather convoluted > > can you explain this? having been involved in building packages > for as long as I have, I don't think it's that convoluted. This referred to the need for an SVN checkout and the extra make-perl-make rigamarole in SPECS/, as opposed to a single tarball with SPEC files that you can download and then run pkgtool --download build *.spec on. [ade]
