On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote: > Patches are useless when you (ptx) don't have the OS to test it.
If they look sane, it's ok :-) > I would really suggest adding more platforms than just Debian > (Ubuntu is pretty much a Debian), even though for most Debian users > their OS is the center of the know universe ;-) This is not how it works. *I* don't have RHEL and I don't need it, so why should I care? As this is open source, everyone who needs it can find out why it breaks for him and send us patches, and we'll happy to merge them if they are done properly. We would probably also care if we had a paying customer for RHEL. > The python problem seems a dependency problem of xcb-proto.in which > you won't notice when your host system uses python >= 2.5 ;-) Python 2.5 was released in 2006, this was *5* years ago :-) > The compiler on RHEL is to old to build the glibc headers for a x86 > compiler; If RHEL's compiler is too old to build a recent gcc, you should either use a distro which is newer or complain to the gcc folks. > And I have the feeling this list will go on and on. Welcome to the dayily set of problems everyone else working on this kind of stuff has. > Problems like that would be quickly noticed by adding some other > platforms to the list of platforms on which ptxdist is testet, even > if it is just to warn ppl that it currently does not work on > platform X. Yes, that's an idea. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
