Actually, I mentioned this to some gentoo-alpha developers on irc and they said that we may need libunwind for future x-servers. Perhaps there will be others interested. Not sure how much time I'll have to spend on this realistically, so it could be a while yet and I have no idea what timeline they are thinking about for supporting future x-servers.
Cheers! On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Tommi Rantala <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/2/19 Eric Nichols <[email protected]>: > > I notice there are quite a few supported architectures in this project, > but > > I do not see Alpha. Any chance of support being added at some point? > > > > I have a couple of AlphaServers which I run linux on, and this package > has > > come up as a dependency a couple times, and naturally it doesn't work. > > Hi Eric, > > AFAIK nobody is working on adding alpha support, so do not expect to > see it any time soon. > > It is not impossibly hard to add rudimentary support for new > architectures, but it does take some time to delve into the details > how backtracing works on a given arch. > > When it comes to Alpha, it's helpful that qemu seems to have alpha > support, so access to physical machine would not even be strictly > required. > > Tommi >
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