On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 02:56:22AM +0200, Adrian Zaugg wrote: > It always sad to give up some machines, but if it saves the life of > others for some time longer, it should be ok. Nobody really objected for > almost a year to your proposal. I guess all of the persons behind the 12 > alphas counted in the popcon are on this list and at least one would > have raised the voice if a machines of those was concerned.
I have not done it yet. I have recently managed a local rebuild of gcc-4.9 and gcc-4.8 that compile with bwx by default but the build of glibc with those compilers fails with a number of segmentation errors in the test suite, and until that is resolved I most certainly will not enact the change at debian-ports. > You mention it eases your work and accelerates the machines supporting > BWX CPU flag, so I think it is a good idea to drop support for older > CPUs and enjoy support for the remaining alpha systems for some time > longer. A number of the bugs in the C-compiler were due to support for legacy ev4, and I suspect some other bugs in the alpha distribution would disappear if recompiled for BWX. I have too many other projects I want to work on, that I just don't now have time to put into Alpha support. I see that cmake now fails to build, and that means there is a growing part of the repository that we cannot build. I took a look at the cmake failure to build but I do not know anything about cmake, and am somewhat baffled by the build failure. It is a test suite failure in the test CompileFeatures while testing the "c_function_prototypes" feature (see [1]), but as far as I can tell that is just a test on the gcc version and if it is recent enough cmake says you have the feature. The Alpha gcc does it in fact have the feature. I do not see why cmake should mistake that. If someone with better C++ and cmake foo than I have would investigate that would be great! Cheers Michael. [1] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=cmake&suite=sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150601060621.GC11443@tower
