Re: New ARM elfloader patch

[Adam C Powell IV]

Guess what...  it built!  (Had to split it among the two local 
partitions and put relatively inactive stuff on NFS.)  So the patches 
were successful that far; they're at:

Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
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.

Build logs are at:
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/xfree86_4.1.0-7.8.log
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/xfree86_4.1.0-7.8b.log
(the first completed build and ran out of space in install; the second 
has install and binary-arch.)

There was one warning worth noting, during the "dh_movefiles" substitute:
cp: cannot stat 
`/redhat/packages/xfree86-4.1.0/debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/tdfx.o': 
No such file or directory

Now the bad news: it doesn't work. :-(  The debugging loader churns out 
over 30 MB of stuff, then dies with:

ElfGetSymbolNameIndex(6b,a) afbCreateDefColormap 1 0 0
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
The (huge!) log and XF86Config (generated by debconf) are at:
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/XFree86.0.log
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/XF86Config-4
Does this much (this little) progress justify including the above 
patches in the X package?

Zeen,
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