Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > One part of the question here is "why do we need libatomic-ops?". The > answer to that is, because libgc uses it and libgc is used by e.g. gcc, > gnutls, guile, and make. Possibly, some of these could be built without > libgc, but th

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Alexey, On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:53:45PM +, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Sorry for this stupid question but I'm not very familiar with use-cases for > libatomic-ops so would like to get some more clarification on what's needed > here. > > I know that GCC has quite a few built-ins for atomic

RE: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Alexey Brodkin
Hi Helmut, > > 2. libgpg-error has ARC support since v1.33, see: > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__git.gnupg.org_cgi-2Dbin_gitweb.cgi-3Fp- > 3Dlibgpg-2Derror.git-3Ba-3Dcommit-3Bh- > 3D48c8f8ddfc80&d=DwIBAg&c=DPL6_X_6JkXFx7AXWqB0tg&r=lqdeeSSEes0GFDDl656eViXO7breS55ytWk

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Alexey, On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:51:44AM +, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > I guess almost all of the packages you mentioned already have > needed improvements for ARC. I didn't mean to imply that anything was missing. I just mentioned those that usually need work without having checked any. >

RE: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-26 Thread Alexey Brodkin
Hi Helmut, > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 05:25:58PM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote: > > ARC glibc is still in works, but assuming that will happen in near future > > what > > other upstream prerequisites are needed. The obvious ones would be Linux > > kernel, > > gcc, binutils: all 3 of which are support

Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Vineet, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 05:25:58PM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote: > ARC glibc is still in works, but assuming that will happen in near future what > other upstream prerequisites are needed. The obvious ones would be Linux > kernel, > gcc, binutils: all 3 of which are supported for ARC. Fro

ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

2020-03-25 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Helmut, On 2/20/20 8:27 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Since I saw arc in the subject, I also threw arc at rebootstrap. Turns > out that glibc 2.30 does not yet cover arc and using unpackaged versions > of glibc is non-trivial for rebootstrap, so I cannot do much about that. > Once arc support i