Re: [Cooker] Parting to the Alpha
These numbers are very close to the same for k6 On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Of the 632 packages 498 compiled OK and 134 had some problem. I classified the "problem" packages in the following categories: Architecture_is_not_included: 23 File_contains_non-printabable_characters: 15 common: 96 Very interesting, thanks for doing all those builds! One thing you should watch for -- many packages will compile fine, but completely bomb because there are assumptions in the source code about integers being the same size as pointers. If it is easy, could you consider adding another category to the above: packages which compile but emit warnings similar to: "pointer cast to integer of different size" I wonder if RedHat has patches for their Alpha packages... Regards, Jeff -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [Cooker] Parting to the Alpha
File_contains_non-printabable_characters: 15 Just set LC_CTYPE=en instead of 'C' (you need the locale for English to be installed of course) This didn't work with the redhat 6.0 "rpm". I upgraded to Mandrake's rpm and the environment setting. That worked. I have now been able to compile about 12 of the 15 in this group. Only a few didn't work out. The packages included in "Architecture is not included" are packages that a specific for intel machine, like dosemu and Wine. wine should have a line ExclusiveArch: i386 i486 i586 in its spec file. The same should be added for dosemu and such. It does. I guess that's what causes the error message. It's not a problem, this stuff is x86 specific... The alpha version need some alpha-specific ones too; like the emx86 I think is called allowing to run (most) Linux/i386 programs on Linux/alpha. I've tried it a few years ago on my first alpha (a UDB). Very very slow, but it works... It's not pretty though... getting the Tru64 lib's to run netscape acrobat is a better idea... Greetings, Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Parting to the Alpha
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Of the 632 packages 498 compiled OK and 134 had some problem. I classified the "problem" packages in the following categories: Architecture_is_not_included: 23 File_contains_non-printabable_characters: 15 common: 96 Very interesting, thanks for doing all those builds! One thing you should watch for -- many packages will compile fine, but completely bomb because there are assumptions in the source code about integers being the same size as pointers. If it is easy, could you consider adding another category to the above: packages which compile but emit warnings similar to: "pointer cast to integer of different size" I wonder if RedHat has patches for their Alpha packages... Regards, Jeff
