Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-02-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-14 00:32, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: Secondly, there are cases like GDM, where a single unsupported package have rather long reaching consequences. In the concrete example, GNOME (via gnome-core) strictly depends on gdm3, meaning that if gdm3 goes, (more or less) all of

Re: Emulation of sendfile().

2014-02-16 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
lördag den 26 oktober 2013 klockan 18:09 skrev Robert Millan detta: Please could you try: 1. Rebuild freebsd-glue with attached patch 2. Add -I /usr/include/freebsd to CFLAGS in your package. 3. Add -lfreebsd-glue to LDFLAGS in your package. This should seamlessly map sendfile() to the

Re: Emulation of sendfile().

2014-02-16 Thread Robert Millan
On 16/02/2014 10:40, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: 1. Rebuild freebsd-glue with attached patch 2. Add -I /usr/include/freebsd to CFLAGS in your package. 3. Add -lfreebsd-glue to LDFLAGS in your package. This should seamlessly map sendfile() to the BSD version. Alternatively, you can

Re: Emulation of sendfile().

2014-02-16 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
söndag den 16 februari 2014 klockan 12:19 skrev Robert Millan detta: On 16/02/2014 10:40, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: This should seamlessly map sendfile() to the BSD version. Alternatively, you can skip step 2 and use bsd_sendfile() instead. I now doubt the sanity of your undertaking,

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-02-16 Thread Robert Millan
On 16/02/2014 08:49, Niels Thykier wrote: I believe Robert concluded that it was possible to use an alternative to gdm3 (I forgot if it was lightdm or xdm). Well, not exactly. I think we're at a cross-roads. My understanding is that this used to be possible until now, but the GNOME

Re: Emulation of sendfile().

2014-02-16 Thread Robert Millan
On 16/02/2014 12:33, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: But this raises a new question: Will present or future versions of eglibc, with the architecture kfreebsd-any, expose a functional library call ssize_t sendfile (int, int, off_t, size_t) for general use? I.e., will the stub ever be