Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Schreiber
GCC-4.8 should become the default on ia64 soon; some other changes are desirable: - The transition of gcc-4.8/libgcc1 to libunwind8. - A removal of the libunwind7 dependency of around 4600 packages on ia64 - when they are updated next time after the transition. The libc6.1 should (likely) de

Re: status of ia64 for jessie and later

2013-05-09 Thread Stephan Schreiber
Quoting Ansgar Burchardt : I remember talk about potentially dropping the ia64 port after wheezy was released, but don't know about the current status. All Wheezy ia64 RC bugs have been fixed (except the problem with the ruby package; the fix is still in the works). Quoting Ansgar Burchard

Re: Bug#593141: Bug#653582: ruby-hpricot: FTBFS on ia64: ruby crashes while running tests

2012-12-07 Thread Stephan Schreiber
I took a look at this a few weeks ago. The problem is the code in the cont.c file which implements continuations. A thread saves its own stack and its thread context itself while it is running. The ruby programmers believe that that the saved info can be used by another thread to switch over.