Re: New ARM elfloader patch

[Adam C Powell IV]

Okay, I give up.  I've tried several times to build this package, and 
each time it's failed, because of something having nothing to do with 
the package itself.  I got some patches together, and after a couple of 
early mistakes they've built just fine -- and work with -7 too.  But at 
some point, during unpacking or during dh_makeshlibs or anywhere in 
between, the following happens:

nfs: server not responding, still trying
(I don't have enough disk space on my Netwinder to hold the entire build 
tree.)  I can't seem to get out of this, can't unmount the remote 
directories, can't kill the processes which are keeping it busy, even 
have trouble rebooting sometimes.

If I try to "debian/rules build" after it fails in the middle, it seems 
to do a "make clean" or something similar which removes all of the 
previously-built libraries and object files.  So the previous progress 
is lost.

So, could someone else please take my patches and build and upload X for 
us?  They're at:

http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/311_arm_compiler_h.diff
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/312_arm_elfloader.diff
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/350_mips_compiler_h.diff
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/400_hppa_support.diff
Unpack the X source, then put all of these in debian/patches, and remove 
310_arm_compiler_h.diff from that directory.  It should build, and if 
all goes well, it may even work!

The first two are based on the previous 310_arm_compiler_h.diff and 600 
and 600a from debian/held-patches.  No rocket science here, I just had 
to tweak it a bit to use the inx/outx prototypes from libc, specifically 
sys/io.h.  The last two differ from what's there now only in line 
numbers so their compiler.h hunks are applied without offset.

Thanks,
--
-Adam P.
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