On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Chow Loong Jin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 1) "It's known not to work on FreeBSD and probably does not work on other >> non-Linux targets." >> >> 2) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502083 >> >> 3) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320697 > But Debian is not BSD, it's a GNU/Linux distribution is it not? Also,
No, Debian is not BSD. But we have this http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/: "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set." Now, as you can see at #502083 and #320697 the use of the flag has gotten problems before. > I'm not too sure about the whole breaking-on-other-archs issue. I've got > some packages with the ltmain.sh as needed patch, and -Wl,--as-needed in > LDFLAGS, and they built on all the target architectures[1]. > Well, I am not sure either because it is the first time I face this problem. But, If I've read well in #502083 there says: "--as-needed is only used on arm and armel builds, while it should be exactly opposite :( Incidentally it also shows that --as-needed is ok for arm (but not for armel)." While in arm it was ok, in armel the use of --as-needed flag didn't work. So, the use of such a flag could be _problematic_. > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/geanyvc/0.4-0ubuntu1 Well, this package is not into Debian archive yet, there is only an ITP. I know that Debian supports 12 architectures (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/) while Ubuntu only supports 6 https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/installation-guide/i386/hardware-supported.html so I think your argument about geanyvc does not apply at all for Debian. Regards, -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. GPG Key = 127029F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
