Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

2017-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, on mer. 12 avril 2017 13:55:08 +0100, wrote: > I expect there might be problems trying to build linux arches from a > kfreebsd host. But we should try to find out, and then maybe fix it. FWIW, I have been building hurd-i386 images from a linux box for a long time without

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Mon 06 May 2013 16:22:30 +0200, a écrit : - hurd never had openjdk support, and afaik, nobody is working on that. There has been work towards this, notably by Jeremie Koenig. I don't know the status, we just have not made it a strong priority so far. Samuel -- To

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-04-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kurt Roeckx, le Tue 26 Apr 2011 21:28:57 +0200, a écrit : Is there a reason not to switch the remaining (release) arches (ia64, kfreebsd-*, sparc, s390)? Maybe hurd-i386 too? There's no real reason to defer hurd-i386, as it's basically like i386, and the key packages (glibc/hurd/gnumach)

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 09:14:40 -0800, a écrit : I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default, but I think it's clear how using --as-needed may benefit a distribution in terms of reducing churn when library dependencies change. We agree on the second part, but

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 19:49:57 +0100, a écrit : * Roland McGrath: I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. It is fundamentally wrong because -lfoo means I demand that the initializers of libfoo.so run, whether or not I called anything

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to solve? The answer is mainly unwanted libraries being linked in as a result of using pkg-config (and various