Bug#639674: dpkg: please add armhf triplet in squeeze dpkg

2011-10-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 29 August 2011 14:05, Guillem Jover wrote: > I've cherry-picked it now from master. Hi Guillem, any news on this bug? The list of packages in auto-not-for-us for armhf keeps growing because of this bug :) http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=armhf&suite=unstable Could yo

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 14 March 2011 10:47, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > >> To cut the long story short, I agree with Steve's proposal on this: >> >> arm-linux-gnueabi_hf > > What is the purpose of the underscore?  In other words, what is the >

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-03-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
After a short discussion with Steve and later with Guillem on IRC, I think it's time to make a final decision about this issue. To cut the long story short, I agree with Steve's proposal on this: arm-linux-gnueabi_hf If we all agree on this, let's please have a dpkg release with the final armhf

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
ething totally irrelevant. Konstantinos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_%28name%29) On 17 February 2011 22:19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I really would like to know t

dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2010-09-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
s the same functionality- is absolutely needed for the port to actually exist and evolve. I would really appreciate a reply. Regards Konstantinos Margaritis Genesi USA, Senior Software engineer, armhf port maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:01:18 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 3. libtheora, well that's a known issue in gcc LP: #605255, I'm rebuilding > gcc today probably and I'll retry again > > 12. isc-dhcp fails to build, I didn't patch it at all but i

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-08 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:01:18 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 9. elinks build breaks with this error: http://paste.debian.net/82207/ > I can't build aptitude without elinks, so if anyone has an idea about that > I'd appreciate it. Both elinks and aptitude were fixed,

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:01:18 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 11. klibc: I modified the source to tune for armv7-a but it still fails to > build: http://paste.debian.net/82212/ (which as I found, used to occur with > klibc in ubuntu, LP: #534281). This probably has to do with

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 19:23:51 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Yup, and doxygen fails. In fact I am amazed that this actually builds on > other platforms properly, it appears that it build-deps on libqt4-dev, but > Makefile.doxywizard is configured for qt3: I patched doxyg

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:01:18 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > There are a few things left to do yet: > > 1. binutils, I'm using the ubuntu package right now as the debian one > doesn't yet compile, I guess I'll need some CodeSourcery arm hardfp > backport

Re: armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:01:18 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Mono seems to build though Correction, mono does not build: http://paste.debian.net/82215/ > I might have forgotten some packages here in the list, if I find something > else, I'll post another mail. Yup, and

armhf port, repo and simple image available

2010-08-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, After a LOT of compiling and patching around, I have a armhf repo ready [1] and a simple tarball from debootstrap in case one wants to try the stuff [2]. In short, I have ~3000 packages built at the time of writing this, and more are building as we speak. Though it will not cover (yet)

Re: Multiarch and ABI support

2010-07-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Monday 19 July 2010 22:51:42 Hector Oron wrote: > But the question is why would you run 'armel' binaries on 'armhf' > architecture (outside a chroot - within multiarch qualified paths) as > a user (not developing or building for 'armel'), which is the use case > of being able to run 'armel' bina

Re: Multiarch and ABI support

2010-07-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Monday 19 July 2010 21:02:32 Hector Oron wrote: > In 'armhf' case $ gcc -dumpmachine spits the same GCC tuplet (unless > we use GCC vendor tag as an ABI tag) > But `dpkg' do not mach quadruplet names, not yet... ;-) It does now... :) I had to modify in particular scripts/Dpkg/Arch.pm and script

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 15 July 2010 21:06:52 Paul Brook wrote: > Not quite. It provides a mechanism for selecting different routines without > the runtime overhead of a check on every call. It effecitvely provides a > hook into the dynamaic linker that allows you to decide which function to > export for a

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 15 July 2010 19:48:43 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Note that the new alternative to hwcap is called "multiarch" in the GNU > libc (something totally different than "multiarch" in Debian). It allows > to provide different versions of a given symbol using an IFUNC symbol > type. This will be r

Re: cortex / arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi (was Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant)

2010-07-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
o denote that the port is strictly for cpus that do include a vfp (as Matt said before in this list, armelhf though it sounds really nice, it still is not clear whether it supports vfp, fpa, etc.). Regards Konstantinos Margaritis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@l

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-08 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 08 July 2010 14:06:58 Guillem Jover wrote: > Actually, this only seems to me to indicate the option that Aurelien > was mentioning (building few core packages with softfp) should be strongly > considered instead of adding a whole new architecture, which didn't look > had been properly e

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 20:45:33 Paul Brook wrote: > Debian is pure soft-float (i.e. -mfloat-abi=soft). Right, all the more reason for a new flavour then :) > -mfloat-abi=soft and -mfloat-abi=softfp are binary compatible (objects and > libraries can be freely mixed). Obviously softfp code will wi

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-06 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 20:30:13 Hector Oron wrote: ... > some preliminary results gave me 20-25% speed increase on exactly the same > software/hardware configuration (eg. glxgears on software mesa reports 145 > fps vs 120 fps). Just one comment, some more benchmarking [1] revealed ~35% speed

Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages

2005-08-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Κυριακή 28 Αύγουστος 2005 12:52, Scott James Remnant wrote: > It's an interesting question, certainly; to my mind I don't think > it's any scarier to dump a scary english message or a scary french > one. The added advantage to translating them is that the user > might have the skill to know wha

Re: About dpkg translation, please consider i18n when choosing words

2005-06-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(no need to cc, as I read -i18n) On Τρίτη 14 Ιούνιος 2005 08:28, Scott James Remnant wrote: > At the disk of being confrontational, I actually don't agree with > either of you. I think it's important that the English messages in > dpkg be good, clear English. I do not believe that this should be

About dpkg translation, please consider i18n when choosing words

2005-06-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Wrt to the msgid: gobble replaced file `%.255s' I find the word 'gobble' highly untranslatable, at least not without choosing a synonym. While I understand that for native English speakers it's hard not to use computer slang, choosing such words for program messages, makes it quite hard for tr