On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 23:23 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > It looks like about 80-90% of the patch is unnecessary to support this > > architecture, e.g. there's no need for openrisc, os400, djgpp, crx etc. > > in a Debian system. Can you please edit out the unnecessary parts so > > the patch is more compact, while supporting the new arch (and other new > > ones like armeb)? If you don't, I will try, but I can't guarantee it > > will work... > > Well, there might be no need for openrisc, os400, djgpp, crx, but if > you think about it, there is really no need to make the patch shorter > either.
Sure there is. It's about conciseness and verifiability. I want a set of small patches which someone can reasonably say, "Okay, I see what that does, it does that and nothing more," and not worry that it will do something bad to their machine. Long patches which do much more than is needed for Debian are inherently bad. > In fact, this is not really about applying a patch, it is about using > the most recent config.guess and config.sub available. You can find > those files in the autotools-dev package, in /usr/share/misc. Right, but that's an issue for upstream, which has stopped developing mpich-1.x. > If you don't like adding a patch which is aesthetically ugly to you, > you can copy the files at build time instead. The details are > explained in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz. Interesting idea. At some point I might try this, but for now I think I'll just cut a lot out of your patch. Thanks for the suggestion. > > Also, mpich is stuck with about twelve other packages trying to enter > > testing, so until that transition is made I'll be unable to upload a new > > mpich package. I'll do this as soon as possible. > > I hope such is not the case anymore. Nope, so I'll try to get to this soon. > For the record, several hurd-i386 packages fail to build from source > because libmpich1.0-dev does not exist. Yes, mpich is pretty central to much of the cluster computing infrastructure. I'll try to get to it soon. Thanks, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
