Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-07-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Adrian, Ben, as a follow-up to [1], I'm using klibc-utils with my patch since shortly before submitting the merge request ("Build static tools for ia64 again" ([2])) but rebuilt it yesterday with a checkout of the current state of the master branch of kernel-team/klibc ([3]) as source fol

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 06/06/2018 02:13 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/06/2018 02:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: In the meantime - with the workaround enabled - the "standard" initramfs as used in Debian becomes usable again on ia64 with the next release of klibc already. Have you submitted a pull requ

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/06/2018 02:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > In the meantime - with the workaround enabled - the "standard" initramfs as > used in Debian becomes usable again on ia64 with the next release of klibc > already. Have you submitted a pull request to the klibc package on Salsa? Adrian -- .''`.

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 06/06/2018 02:33 AM, James Clarke wrote: Is there a good reason why we're not fixing the crashing instead of working around it? At least I am currently missing the knowledge to quickly fix the "real" issue - which is still to be determined. And on the other hand, if this workaround was goo

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-05 Thread James Clarke
On 4 Jun 2018, at 16:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 06/04/2018 04:59 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> I tried to follow the guide on the Debian wiki ([1]) and the `apt[-get] >> build-dep klibc` command fails: >> >> >> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial#The_packaging_workflow

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/04/2018 04:59 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > I tried to follow the guide on the Debian wiki ([1]) and the `apt[-get] > build-dep klibc` command fails: > > > [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial#The_packaging_workflow Why aren't you using sbuild? You should always build in a clean

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 06/04/2018 11:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Which build dependencies are you missing? I just did a test build with sbuild and the build dependencies install just fine without any issues. I tried to follow the guide on the Debian wiki ([1]) and the `apt[-get] build-dep

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Frank! On 06/02/2018 09:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > [2]: > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/klibc/commit/07809ffd86e1e4ca5a4e98e4708a1c1fae10babf > > I don't have a clue how to rebuild the `klibc-utils` package in this Sid FS > with some of the build dependencies missing. So could som

ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, recently a kernel package for ia64 appeared on ftp.p.d.o and hence I thought it might be a good time to give it a try to create a Debian GNU/Linux Sid for ia64 FS with `debootstrap` from Sid but executing from a Debian Wheezy installation. After some trial and error I was successful