Christian Meder wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 01:50:20AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > debian/sparc at present: > - has X albeit still slightly buggy but definitly usable, but we have to wait > for the X revolution to settle down before we can try to rebuild a more > recent version > > > - is switching glibc versions by five > > true for sparc, too. But I'm using a 2.0.99 cvs snapshot which is a real > improvement for sparc: > * the ^Z problems with bash and other signal handling oddities (sparc > specific) are gone => we can run 2.1.x kernels on Debian/Sparc now > * it has got a db1 interface > * the exp function segfault (sparc specific) is fixed > ... > > > - has no working base tarball, let alone installer > > sparc has got a working but _very_ old installation set (to be updated)
Yes I know that, but I'm waiting for fixed glibc/bash before working on new installation set. I recently bought a SCSI CD-recorder, so I will also be able to build & try CD images for sparc. BTW, do/should we have to use a 2.1 kernel ? I heard latest 2.1 releases fix the sun4c slowdown, support Turbosparc, ... Anybody already packaged one ? > > - has nothing approaching the set of packages it could given a little > > more time > > ditto for sparc. But I guess you could call it a reasonable subset by release > time. I hope availability of the new glibc will speed up the building process. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
