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> On 20 Nov 2022, at 12:48, Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 20.11.22 10:03, Michael Cree wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:45:17AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> I just noticed that there is a regression in glibc on alpha with version >>> 2.34 or later. >>> >>> Looking at the build logs for Debian's 2.34-8 [1], 2.35-4 [2] and 2.36-4 >>> [3], it's obvious >>> there is something wrong given the many "Segmentation Fault" errors. >>> >>> I had hoped I could fix this issue by passing "--disable-default-pie" like >>> we already did >>> on sparc64, but it seems it's not the same bug [4]. At least, this >>> particular workaround >>> does not help. >> >> Interestingly the vast number of the failing tests pass if one builds >> with a compiler that raises the baseline to EV67. This has been >> proposed a number of times in the past for the Debian distribution. >> I think it is time we did it. One of our last EV56 users has recently >> bowed out due to hardware failure and I am only running EV67 hardware. > > I still have the following pre EV67 machines available and in working order: > > * AXPpci 33 (LCA4) > * AlphaStation 200 (EV4) / 255 (EV45) / 500 (EV56) > * PWS 500au (EV56) > * AlphaServer 800 (EV56) > > ...and can provide testing on them. All of them eventually ran Debian > GNU/Linux Sid with up to Linux 5.x.x IIRC and I will also try them with > 6.0.x. And I believe the majority of still exsiting, still working Alpha > systems are pre EV67 systems. > > Given the fact that EV6[...] and EV7[...] based systems are nowadays > very expensive for hobby use (I don't want to say unobtainium), I expect > that dropping support for pre EV67 will kill off most of the user base > for Debian on Alpha (and also Gentoo I assume). > > Phrasing it differently: > > Who needs a port that only runs on the buildds and a handful of > (hobbyist) machines around the world (like ppc64le ;-))? > > My two cents. > > All the best, > Frank >
