switched to ubuntu

2004-10-07 Thread Ross D
After wresting with the amd64 port for debian, I went tothe new Ubuntu
Linux distribution and had a nearly flawless install with easy
configuration.  I highly recommend this distro for anyone who wants to
use the debian amd64 port but aren't happy with it's incompleteness. 
Thanks to all who helped.

Ross




Re: firefox crach

2004-10-07 Thread Ryan Verner
I found this occured for me when I had the flash plugin installed.  I
removed it,and haven't had one crash since.


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:13:48 -0400 (EDT), William Gomeringer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the same problem. I just haven't gotten around to posting about it,
> but since I have the time to post this we now know that it's not an
> isolated issue :)
> 
> Bill Gomeringer
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi, I have a problem with a mozilla-firefox. When I
> > write in search engines like google, altavista or
> > alltheweb the mozilla crash. Is the package of firefox
> > wrong? Is it a problem of my computer?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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k3b??

2004-10-07 Thread angelja
Hola, soy nuevo en la lista, a ver si hay suerte y alguien me entiende 
el castellano...
Me ocurre que al ejecutar k3b o k3bsetup o xcdroast se me queda el 
ordenador bloqueado (tengo que darle al boton de reset), es normal? con 
arson, gcombust, puedo grabar cd, pero no dvd.

El kernel es el del instalador:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.7-5-amd64-k8 #1 Sun Jul 18 18:15:51 UTC 2004 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

tiene solucion el problema?




Re: firefox crash

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Nelson
was was wrote:
Hi, I have a problem with a mozilla-firefox. When I
write in search engines like google, altavista or
alltheweb the mozilla crash. Is the package of firefox
wrong? Is it a problem of my computer?
 

It's a problem with form autocomplete.  Turn off Privacy > Saved Form 
Information and it'll go away, but obviously is a sub-optimal solution.

-Peter



Re: firefox crach

2004-10-07 Thread William Gomeringer
I have the same problem. I just haven't gotten around to posting about it,
but since I have the time to post this we now know that it's not an
isolated issue :)

Bill Gomeringer

> Hi, I have a problem with a mozilla-firefox. When I
> write in search engines like google, altavista or
> alltheweb the mozilla crash. Is the package of firefox
> wrong? Is it a problem of my computer?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> __
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> Nuevos servicios, más seguridad
> http://correo.yahoo.es
>
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Re: firefox crach

2004-10-07 Thread Kyle Rose
was was <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, I have a problem with a mozilla-firefox. When I
> write in search engines like google, altavista or
> alltheweb the mozilla crash. Is the package of firefox
> wrong? Is it a problem of my computer?

Someone suggested this is due to autocompletion of form data.  I
haven't verified this yet since I only learned about it today, but
it's probably worth trying to delete
~/.mozilla/firefox/something/formhistory.dat.

Cheers,
Kyle




firefox crach

2004-10-07 Thread was was
Hi, I have a problem with a mozilla-firefox. When I
write in search engines like google, altavista or
alltheweb the mozilla crash. Is the package of firefox
wrong? Is it a problem of my computer?

Thanks.



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Nuevos servicios, más seguridad
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Re: libswig gone, breaking subversion

2004-10-07 Thread Matthias Julius
"Lewis J. Goettner, III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'd like to add that although downloading and compiling the swig
> package works, that compiling subversion breaks with the following
> message:

I just installed the self compiled libswig and than subversion from
alioth.  That works fine.

Matthias




Re: Please requeue axiom

2004-10-07 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings, and please excuse my late reply.

Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:17:15PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > 
> > OK, thanks!  Would be interested if each of your failed attempts was
> > with gcl-2.6.5-1, and if you succeed now with gcl 2.6.5-2.  If so,
> > then there is a problem with binutils 2.15 on amd64.
> 
> It build properly using 2.6.5-2 and it's now uploaded.  I've
> tried again with 2.6.5-1 too, and it failed.
> 
> What would be wrong with binutils in that case?  Could you file a
> bug report for it?
> 

The only difference between 2.6.5-1 and 2.6.5-2 is that the former
uses the system bfd library, and the latter compiles a local copy from
the gcl source (pre 2.15).  gcl uses
bfd_get_relocated_section_contents to relocate compiled lisp objects
into its running image, and bfd hash functions to get symbol addresses
from its saved image.  I can't recall the precise location of the
original failure, but one of these is implicated.  Should be
straightforward to find with gdb and a local -g compiled copy of
binutils-2.15, but I'm running short of time right now.

Take care,

> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote:
>> This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still
>> not fixed.
>
> What is the bug, exactly?  I have grub booting into Windows XP on an
> NTFS partition on a SATA drive without any problems.  I used the
> "other OS" entry in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst and it "just
> worked" (once it worked at all; iirc I had to install grub manually at
> the end of the install (a couple of months ago).)

That's the bug I meant. The adm64 installer is still not capable of
finding any NTFS-partition while the i386 can do that for ages now.
It all works if you fix it by hand later, but it would be a lot nicer if
it just worked.

regards,
Thomas




Re: vmware problem [LinuxThreads, NPTL]

2004-10-07 Thread Pete Harlan
Thank you for the feedback!

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:42:16AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> On 04-Oct-06 17:53, Pete Harlan wrote:
> > Do you know how I can compile a program that requires LinuxThreads?
> > 
> > Specifically, when running "configure" from the mysql source from
> > mysql.com, it now fails with:
[...]
> 
> This is an upstream bug in mysql. I think this will be fixed upstream 
> soon.
> 
> In the meantime, please try the attached patch (which is against 
> mysql-dfsg-4.0.21).

I had no success getting MySQL to work.  The mysql.com sources
configured/compiled with your patch; the Debian source:


ftp://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pub/debian-amd64/gcc-3.4/pool/unstable/main/source/m/mysql-dfsg/

appeared to already include the patch.  Both configure/compile, but
then segfault as soon as they launch.

I'll bring it up (again; this time with more info) to the MySQL guys.
Thanks for your help!

--Pete


> > Is LinuxThreads available as a separate .deb, or compilable
> > separately, or am I going to have to modify the source or compile my
> > own glibc?
> 
> It has to be compiled together with glibc. Debian i386 has separate
> full glibc versions one of which uses linuxthreads and the other uses
> nptl. However, linuxthreads is a legacy kernel-2.4 thing and should be
> avoided.
> 
> Regards
> Andreas Jochens
> 
> diff -urN ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure ./configure
> --- ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure   2004-10-01 14:22:20.900250208 
> +0200
> +++ ./configure   2004-10-01 14:22:17.787723384 +0200
> @@ -24953,18 +24953,10 @@
>  else
>echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: \"Not found\"" >&5
>  echo "${ECHO_T}\"Not found\"" >&6
> -  # If this is a linux machine we should barf
>if test "$IS_LINUX" = "true"
>then
> - { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: This is a linux system and 
> Linuxthreads was not
> -found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
> -(or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
> -Reference Manual for more information." >&5
> -echo "$as_me: error: This is a linux system and Linuxthreads was not
> -found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
> -(or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
> -Reference Manual for more information." >&2;}
> -   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
> +# use nptl instead of linuxthreads
> +CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DUSE_MUTEX_INSTEAD_OF_RW_LOCKS 
> -DPTHREAD_ADAPTIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP"
>else
>   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking \"DEC threads\"" >&5
>  echo $ECHO_N "checking \"DEC threads\"... $ECHO_C" >&6
> diff -urN ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure.in ./configure.in
> --- ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure.in2004-09-07 
> 00:29:39.0 +0200
> +++ ./configure.in2004-10-01 14:22:10.295862320 +0200
> @@ -1238,13 +1238,10 @@
>with_named_thread="-lpthread"
>  else
>AC_MSG_RESULT("Not found")
> -  # If this is a linux machine we should barf
>if test "$IS_LINUX" = "true"
>then
> - AC_MSG_ERROR([This is a linux system and Linuxthreads was not
> -found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
> -(or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
> -Reference Manual for more information.])
> +# use nptl instead of linuxthreads
> +CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DUSE_MUTEX_INSTEAD_OF_RW_LOCKS 
> -DPTHREAD_ADAPTIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP"
>else
>   AC_MSG_CHECKING("DEC threads")
>  if test -f /usr/shlib/libpthread.so -a -f /usr/lib/libmach.a -a -f 
> /usr/ccs/lib/cmplrs/cc/libexc.a
> 
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Re: mzscheme and amd64

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Oct-07 17:45, John Lenz wrote:
> The debian version of drscheme and mzscheme is 207, which does not have  
> support for amd64 and fails to compile, so the package is missing from the  
> amd64 archive.
> 
> The latest version of drscheme is 208, which was released in August, and it 
> contains support for amd64.  I was able to download the 208 source and  
> apply the drscheme_207-3.diff.gz.  There were two rejects which I fixed,  
> and I needed to make one small change to debian/rules.  I was then able to  
> successfully build the mzscheme package, and have been using it the past  
> few days.   Of course, I have not tested everything but it seems to be  
> working.  (This is with the gcc-3.4 archive)
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can send the drscheme_208-1.diff.gz file I  
> created.

If you send me your drscheme_208-1.diff.gz, I can upload drscheme to 
the gcc-3.4 archive. Additionally you could send it to the maintainer
of the drscheme package.

Regards
Andreas Jochens




Re: Debian SID AMD64 success on MSI K8T-NEO2

2004-10-07 Thread Koef
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:39:41PM +0200, Michael Wagener wrote:

> on-board via8235 audio

Did you try S/PDIF output?

Thanks,

-- 
Koef.




mzscheme and amd64

2004-10-07 Thread John Lenz
The debian version of drscheme and mzscheme is 207, which does not have  
support for amd64 and fails to compile, so the package is missing from the  
amd64 archive.

The latest version of drscheme is 208, which was released in August, and it  
contains support for amd64.  I was able to download the 208 source and  
apply the drscheme_207-3.diff.gz.  There were two rejects which I fixed,  
and I needed to make one small change to debian/rules.  I was then able to  
successfully build the mzscheme package, and have been using it the past  
few days.   Of course, I have not tested everything but it seems to be  
working.  (This is with the gcc-3.4 archive)

If anyone is interested, I can send the drscheme_208-1.diff.gz file I  
created.

John



Debian SID AMD64 success on MSI K8T-NEO2

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Wagener
It works! Out of the box!
I successfully installed AMD64 SID with the installer mirrored on
bach.hpc2n.umu.se! I am using the updated 2.8.6-4 kernel. I can
even run D2X, Q3, UT, FAKK2 and NWN in a chroot!
The only problems were with the nvidia-installer which were quickly
figured out.
Hardware tested so far:
on-board VIA PATA 8237 ok
on-board IEEE1394 ok
on-board RTL8110s ok (with 100MBit)
on-board VIA USB ok (BIOS cannot boot from USB)
PCI Tekram SCSI U2W (LSI/Symbios 82C895) ok
on-board via8235 audio (little problems see below)
UT has crashed once after the via82c8xx module gave
Assertion failed! chan->is_active == sg_active(chan->iobase),\
sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c,via_chan_maybe_start,line=1387
I did not try any RAID or SATA configuration.
A great "Thank you!" to all who made this possible. You guys rock!
Mike



Re: Need ia32 alsa lib

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Oct-07 18:05, greg wrote:
> Thanks a lot, it compiles well.
> Now I can't get to the modem device, but I think it's not 64 bits-related, 
> damn winmodems ...
> Thanks again !
> 
>   greg
> 
> P.S: just for curiosity, do all libs in /emu/ia32-linux come directly from 
> x32_86 SID ?

Yes, the ia32-libs package contains just binary .deb packages which 
were taken from the Debian i386 distribution. 

With 'apt-get install ia32-libs' these 32bit i386 .debs are 
unpacked and installed in the '/emul/ia32-linux' directory.

Regards
Andreas Jochens
 




Re: Need ia32 alsa lib

2004-10-07 Thread greg
Thanks a lot, it compiles well.
Now I can't get to the modem device, but I think it's not 64 bits-related, damn 
winmodems ...
Thanks again !

  greg

P.S: just for curiosity, do all libs in /emu/ia32-linux come directly from 
x32_86 SID ?

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-- Original Message ---
From: Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:15:15 +0200
Subject: Re: Need ia32 alsa lib

> On 04-Oct-07 16:13, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> > installation or from the i386 .deb package and copy them to 
> > /emul/ia32-libs/usr/lib.
> 
> The above should read /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib, of course. 
> Sorry for the typo.
> 
> Regards
> Andreas Jochens
--- End of Original Message ---




Re: Re: libswig gone, breaking subversion

2004-10-07 Thread Lewis J. Goettner, III
I'd like to add that although downloading and compiling the swig package works, 
that compiling subversion breaks with the following message:

dpkg-buildpackage: source package is subversion
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.0.8-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is amd64
 debian/rules clean
/bin/sh: none: No such file or directory
debian/rules:89: *** target file `debian/control' has both : and :: entries.  
Stop.
Build command 'cd subversion-1.0.8 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed

Granted, it's possible it could have compiled and ended up with the same broken 
depencency.

-Lew




Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Pete Harlan
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote:
> > 1.  I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB.  During
> [snip]
> 
> This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not
> fixed.

What is the bug, exactly?  I have grub booting into Windows XP on an
NTFS partition on a SATA drive without any problems.  I used the
"other OS" entry in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst and it "just
worked" (once it worked at all; iirc I had to install grub manually at
the end of the install (a couple of months ago).)

Which is not to say there aren't any problems, but there are setups
that do what you're trying to do.

--Pete




Re: Re: Installing nvidia glx safely...(was Re: Required..)

2004-10-07 Thread xarz
> 
> De: Sebastian Steinlechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Fecha: 2004/10/07 jue PM 04:35:29 GMT+02:00
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: debian-amd64 
> Asunto: Re: Installing nvidia glx  safely...(was Re: Required..)

This worked!

Thanks!




Re: Installing nvidia glx safely...(was Re: Required..)

2004-10-07 Thread Sebastian Steinlechner
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> My question: Is any other way to catch the libs of nvidia binary driver 
> installer and put into /lib directory without removing the /lib64 link?

Jep, this should work as well:

Run the installer first. Then: "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2.run
-x" will extract the whole driver package without running the installer.
Now copy everything in "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2/usr/lib/" over
to /usr/lib/. Perhaps you should run ldconfig after that to update the
lib cache.
Usual disclaimer ("this might break your system, kill your dog, start
WWIII" and so on...) applies here as well, so use with care.

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Re: "GRUB loading" problem with AMD64 install

2004-10-07 Thread Sebastian Steinlechner
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 01:07, Michael Vang wrote:
> I wonder if these bug reports match our issue?
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272625
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266049

I'd say the "4-digit kernel version problem" makes sense and could be
the cause here as well. Partition size shouldn't be an issue, I'm using
grub and there's a 10GB windows and a 70GB freebsd partition in front of
my linux boot partition - works fine.
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Re: Need ia32 alsa lib

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Oct-07 16:13, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> installation or from the i386 .deb package and copy them to 
> /emul/ia32-libs/usr/lib.

The above should read /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib, of course. 
Sorry for the typo.

Regards
Andreas Jochens




Re: Need ia32 alsa lib

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Oct-07 15:39, greg wrote:
> I'm compiling slmodem with ALSA support, in order to use an i8x0m modem.
> Unfortunately, it won't compile with ia64 libs, so I use the "-m32" option. 
> But it won't compile
> neither because ia32-libs deb package does not contain libasound.so.
> So, is there a way to have libasound.so in the ia32-libs package ? Or is 
> their a rapid way to get
> this binary ?

Until libasound will be available from the ia32-libs package,
you can take the 32bit libasound library files from an i386 
installation or from the i386 .deb package and copy them to 
/emul/ia32-libs/usr/lib.

After running 'ldconfig' the libasound shared library should 
be usable.

BTW, the -m32 option works only with gcc-3.4 at the moment.

Regards
Andreas Jochens




Need ia32 alsa lib

2004-10-07 Thread greg
Hi there, 

I'm compiling slmodem with ALSA support, in order to use an i8x0m modem.
Unfortunately, it won't compile with ia64 libs, so I use the "-m32" option. But 
it won't compile
neither because ia32-libs deb package does not contain libasound.so.
So, is there a way to have libasound.so in the ia32-libs package ? Or is their 
a rapid way to get
this binary ?

Thanks

 greg

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Installing nvidia glx safely...(was Re: Required..)

2004-10-07 Thread xarz
Thanks frederik for your help..but not needed at last:(

The problem is the  next:

The nvidia 64 bynary drivers attemps to overrite the libs in /lib directory. 
The common solution was to remove the link of lib64, create a lib64 real 
directory and the run the installer. After this you only need to manually 
override your glx libs in /lib and then restore the link again.

But now if you remove the lib64 link... your system remains unusable, any 
command is understood by the bash.

My question: Is any other way to catch the libs of nvidia binary driver 
installer and put into /lib directory without removing the /lib64 link?

(Surely is a noob question, but I'm bloocked.




Abwesenheitsnotiz: Thanks!

2004-10-07 Thread Simmen Susanne
Ich bin vom 6.  bis und mit 20. Oktober 2004 ferienhalber abwesend. Ihr
Mail wird an H. Schütz weitergeleitet.




Re: Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Nils Nordman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote:
> 
> > 2.  When I finish installing the base system and bootloader and
> > reboot, I constantly have the same code consistently repeating in the
> > shell:
> >
> > nv_sata:  primary device added
> > nv_sata:  primary device removed
> > nv_sata:  secondary device added
> > nv_sata:  secondary device removed
> >
> > Thsi keeps going on throughout the rest of the install, when trying to
> > get apt-get working, to the point where I can't choose options or type
> > since this is continually running and bringing the screen down.
> > Horribly frustrating and irritating.  No other distributions I tried
> > had this problem, x86 or amd64.
> 
> I remember seeing a post about this a few weeks ago. IIRC the poster
> finished the installation blind and set a few configs afterwards that
> fixed this. Check the archives from september for how and what he did.


More specifically, this message provides the workaround:


 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/10/msg2.html  
 

-- 
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Re: newbie last try

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman

Hi,

> 1.  I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB.  During
[snip]

This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not
fixed.
>From what I remember the installer for AMD64 does not have the necessary
scripts to recognize a Windows partition on NTFS. The fix someone
mentioned then was to use the same scripts for AMD64 as i386 already uses

Re: 802.11g drivers

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Hi,

> So, do you know if there's a solution to this issue ? I could try to
> modify ndiswrapper sources to achieve my goal but I need to know if it's
> possible to run 32-bit assembly instruction in a 64-bit kernel module. Can
> you suggest me a link where I can get the documentation ?

To my knowledge, if part of the kernel is 64-bit, then all the rest of it
(drivers included) needs to be 64-bit. It seems to be you are out of luck
due to the driver being closed source :(

regards,
Thomas




802.11g drivers

2004-10-07 Thread Massimo Perga
Hi all,
  I'm actually using an Acer Aspire 1513LMi (AMD64 3400+) with debian-amd64 
distribution and I'd want use my 802.11g device; Acer tells that's its name is 
InviLink.
Actually I can't find an appropriate driver for Linux on AMD64: in fact it 
seems that the only support for Linux is ndiswapper 
(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). This driver allow to use Windows WLAN 
drivers, so I should not have any problem if I use a Linux 32-bit kernel 
because of 32-bit Windows drivers. Ndiswapper developers aren't actually 
supporting 64-bit kernels because of the lack of 64-bit Windows drivers.
So, do you know if there's a solution to this issue ? I could try to modify 
ndiswrapper sources to achieve my goal but I need to know if it's possible to 
run 32-bit assembly instruction in a 64-bit kernel module. Can you suggest me a 
link where I can get the documentation ?

Thanks in advance,
 Max




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Kudos (was Re: install error)

2004-10-07 Thread Kaare Hviid
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:51:04PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> In the first place, we decided to not change the mirrors list and
> distribution in the installer, since we where told pure64 would be added 
> to Sid as soon as 95% of source packages would be ported.

95%?  If I'm not completely wrong, at least for gcc-3.4, we're currently
approaching 98%.  And that is _with_ the binary-all packages, that they
seemingly don't count or even bother about at buildd.debian.org...
Actually, it would be kind of interesting to know how much of i386
builds on sid if one counts binary-all as well.  I wouldn't be surprised
if pure64 and gcc-3.4 are approaching i386.
I'm not into Debian politics, but I'd guess the people in power are
way too busy getting sarge out of the door, and I won't argue with that
objective.

Frederik Schüler, Andreas Jochens, and all you other guys - your work
is absolutely stunning!
-- 
Kåre Hviid   [EMAIL PROTECTED] +45 3815 3075
Sys Admin  Institut for Datalingvistik, Handelshøjskolen i København




Re: vmware problem [LinuxThreads, NPTL]

2004-10-07 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Oct-06 17:53, Pete Harlan wrote:
> Do you know how I can compile a program that requires LinuxThreads?
> 
> Specifically, when running "configure" from the mysql source from
> mysql.com, it now fails with:
> 
>  checking "LinuxThreads"... "Not found"
>  configure: error: This is a linux system and Linuxthreads was not
>  found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
>  (or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
>  Reference Manual for more information.

This is an upstream bug in mysql. I think this will be fixed upstream 
soon.

In the meantime, please try the attached patch (which is against 
mysql-dfsg-4.0.21).

> Is LinuxThreads available as a separate .deb, or compilable
> separately, or am I going to have to modify the source or compile my
> own glibc?

It has to be compiled together with glibc. Debian i386 has separate
full glibc versions one of which uses linuxthreads and the other uses
nptl. However, linuxthreads is a legacy kernel-2.4 thing and should be
avoided.

Regards
Andreas Jochens

diff -urN ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure ./configure
--- ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure 2004-10-01 14:22:20.900250208 
+0200
+++ ./configure 2004-10-01 14:22:17.787723384 +0200
@@ -24953,18 +24953,10 @@
 else
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: \"Not found\"" >&5
 echo "${ECHO_T}\"Not found\"" >&6
-  # If this is a linux machine we should barf
   if test "$IS_LINUX" = "true"
   then
-   { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: This is a linux system and 
Linuxthreads was not
-found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
-(or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
-Reference Manual for more information." >&5
-echo "$as_me: error: This is a linux system and Linuxthreads was not
-found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
-(or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
-Reference Manual for more information." >&2;}
-   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+# use nptl instead of linuxthreads
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DUSE_MUTEX_INSTEAD_OF_RW_LOCKS 
-DPTHREAD_ADAPTIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP"
   else
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking \"DEC threads\"" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking \"DEC threads\"... $ECHO_C" >&6
diff -urN ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure.in ./configure.in
--- ../tmp-orig/mysql-dfsg-4.0.21/configure.in  2004-09-07 00:29:39.0 
+0200
+++ ./configure.in  2004-10-01 14:22:10.295862320 +0200
@@ -1238,13 +1238,10 @@
   with_named_thread="-lpthread"
 else
   AC_MSG_RESULT("Not found")
-  # If this is a linux machine we should barf
   if test "$IS_LINUX" = "true"
   then
-   AC_MSG_ERROR([This is a linux system and Linuxthreads was not
-found. On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads
-(or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the
-Reference Manual for more information.])
+# use nptl instead of linuxthreads
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DUSE_MUTEX_INSTEAD_OF_RW_LOCKS 
-DPTHREAD_ADAPTIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP"
   else
AC_MSG_CHECKING("DEC threads")
 if test -f /usr/shlib/libpthread.so -a -f /usr/lib/libmach.a -a -f 
/usr/ccs/lib/cmplrs/cc/libexc.a