On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:12:54 -0500, Ivan Jager wrote:

> tags 604717 patch
> severity 604717 critital
> thanks
> 
> Ok, after reading these FAQ entries, I am more convinnced this is
> the right solution.
> 
> >Q: Can you please port the diet libc to FreeBSD/Solaris/Windows?
> >A: No.
> >
> >Q: Can I compile or use the diet libc with a compiler that is not gcc?
> >A: Compile: no.  Use: yes.
> 
> So worrying about what *BSD/Solaris do would be pointless.
> 
> All this patch does is remove some underscores so that endian.h
> checks __sparcv9 like is done in longlong.h. I only tested with gcc,
> but this should work with the sun compiler too, if it's even
> possible to use the sun compiler on linux.
> 
> Unlike reverting patch 0013, this should work even when compiling
> without -Os.
> 
> I was initially hesitant to give this bug a very high severity,
> since it very indirectly breaks the system, but I suppose I need to
> do that so #603882 can be fixed. I did try recompiling util-vserver
> with this patched dietlibc-dev and it works now.
> 
Do you plan on NMUing with this patch?

Cheers,
Julien

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