2008/4/29, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:47:03 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
>
> > libx86 currently built only on i386 and amd64. All other architectures
> > reported build failures, which I've not been able to investigate
> > further (also, upstream seems dead...). Also, I only own a i386
> > machine, and other architectures are available only for DDs.
>
> It also built on hurd-i386 before you restricted the Architecture
> field.

I didn't know this, sorry. (hurd-i386 is not listed anywhere in QA
pages regarding buildds)

> > Please also see #398249 for an example of failed build (and you can
> > see also that the bug is tagged "help" -- if you know how to fix the
> > source... ;) )
>
> The particular problem reported there is fixed, you don't build lrmi.c
> on non-x86.

Are you sure that fixes everything? I don't have any non-x86 machine,
so I can't really test (and, not being a DD, I don't even have access
to developer machines...).

I'll work with my sponsor to get this fixed, however.

> There's still some x86 asm in thunk.c that fails to build
> on other architectures, but that seems fixable.

I'm not really good with ASM :), but I'll google a bit.

> In any case, restricting the Architecture field is the wrong thing to do
> here IMO.

You're right, but that seemed the only way to go.

Thanks,
David

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