Michael Scherer <[email protected]> writes: > Hi,
Hi, > > while trying to fix some missing packages ( the locales-* ), I have > found myself looking at gibc packages. > > We still have support for various arch : > - alpha this arch is broken for quite some time. afaik alpha support is done through glibc-ports and our spec doesn't handle that atm (yet, as arm & mips need glibc-ports). If we ignore this, the rest of the support for alpha is not a big part of the glibc spec. Grepping for alpha in the patches didn't returned a lot of answer too. > - sparc* no idea about sparc support. > - ppc I guess that last time ppc support was tested was when some people were testing cell ppc systems. It probably needs more care to work nowadays. I'm seeing some ppc32 support in glibc-ports but I've no idea if it's really needed (eg ppc64 may not need that). > > Since alpha is dead ( last proc, 2003 ), I think we can all agree that > we can clean this. > > Now, for sparc and ppc, is there someone here who is willing to work on > a port ? If not, I will clean the support ( mainly removing %ifdef and > stuff like that ) from glibc.spec in 2 weeks. It's a matter of weighing the cost of keeping them. If the cost is high and there's no one stepping up to maintain sparc or ppc, it's better to remove them. It can be added back later if someone jumps in. If there's no cost, it's more a subjective question and the people who are best entitled to answer to this question are the people who will maintain the glibc. fwiw, I hope I'll be able to merge at least the arm bits needed for support in the glibc within theses 2 weeks but if I don't manage to do it, please ping me on irc when you'll do the cleaning in order to make sure it won't make merging my work more difficult :) Arnaud
