[ 2nd attempt at replying - an explanatory note just in case the first reply from my ntl address does eventually get through ]
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:14:46PM -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:09:45PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Author: jhuntwork > > Date: 2007-10-06 20:09:45 -0600 (Sat, 06 Oct 2007) > > New Revision: 8405 [...] > > Log: > > Made book buildable by powerpc. > > It took a full day to build on my G4, but with these two small changes > jhalfs ran smoothly and completed successfully. Now that I have the > basics ironed out, it's time to let one run with the full teststuites > enabled, and possibly ICA/farce. > > Ken, care to make a test run? Sure, I was hoping to get back to testing _something_ this week, so why not ppc. [ OTOH, last week I expected to build a desktop with current packages, and didn't really get beyond firefox - at the moment my estimates are very poor in time terms, at the moment there are other things more important or more fun than building software. ] For testsuites, expect 1 additional failure in e2fsprogs - I assume it's a big-endian-specific failure (I forget which, but google suggested the test was against a big-endian corner case, and research showed the failures started in 1.40-WIP versions). Despite the failure, I'm reasonably confident about using 1.40 on ppc (in other words, yet another case where I find the test suite probably unhelpful). Of course, if it passes all tests for you I'll have to revise my views. As to farce, I've pretty much abandoned it - 6.3-rc on x86 had too many not-adequately-explained differences across multiple builds (particularly, files that sometimes matched and other times differed). Bit-for-bit repeatability is nice if you can get it, but I'm no longer sure that its absence is necessarily a problem (there were always a few files that differed, e.g. the undocumented locales archive, but the number seems to have grown recently. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
