On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:53:21PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:27:52PM +0100, Peter Keel wrote: > > [sorry for writing the last few messages with a wrong email-address] > > > > Hello > > > > I'm trying to recompile some essential libraries for Sparc, since > > I know that some of those are meant for V7-architecture, whereas > > binaries for V8 and V9 could be much faster. > > > > Now, I'd like to do this the Debian way. The question is: > > if I do "apt-get -b source glibc", which optimizations > > will be done? Or do I end up with another V7-binary? If > > nothing will be changed, how do I tell the compiler to > > compile this for V9? (same for openssl and ssh). Preferably > > in a generic way, without modifying the makefiles. > > glibc in unstable is already targeted at v8. You can also install > libc6-sparcv9, but I think it is broken at the moment.
Yes, it is still broken, in the last days i haven't seen updates to sid in any platform, maybe people is still auditing the compromised servers. -solca
