Re: cross-compiling the kernel

1999-05-11 Thread Joel Klecker
. You'd still need to build a cross-assembler, gas does not use BFD. Incidentally, I have patches for kernel-package to support cross-compiling at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/36/36863.html. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KSH -- help

1999-05-05 Thread Joel Klecker
and recompiled KSH; no compile errors but the new KSH doesnt exexute at all, it dumps core. I haven't been able to get pdksh 5.2.13 to work on i386 glibc 2.1 either, however pdksh-unstable 5.2.13.8 from upstream works fine. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: dselect hang

1999-05-04 Thread Joel Klecker
anyone seen this before? I'm using potato with kernel 2.0.35 and dselect version 1.4.0.31 on a SS 2. apt 0.3.x and some sparcs (such as my IPC) seem not to get along, 0.1.9 from slink is fine. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: autobuilder...glibc 2.1...egcs 1.1.2

1999-04-26 Thread Joel Klecker
to make a gcc272 package first. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://web.espy.org/ URL:http://www.debian.org/

Re: glibc 2.1 is now on master in my homedir

1999-03-31 Thread Joel Klecker
already, I wrote an init script that deals with mounting devpts if the kernel supports it, or removing /dev/ptmx if it doesn't. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Gnome 0.99.4 packages

1999-02-13 Thread Joel Klecker
to use them on a glibc 2.1 system. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:http://web.espy.org/ URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

Re: missing packages in slink (continued)

1999-01-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:52 + 1999-01-26, Jules Bean wrote: I now find that fakeroot doesn't work for me. I'm building this package as root, but there's another problem needing investigation. fakeroot simply doesn't work with glibc 2.1. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:http://web.espy.org

Re: Compiling perl 5.004_04 for sparc/slink

1999-01-27 Thread Joel Klecker
and /lib/libdb1.so.2 -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:http://web.espy.org/ URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

Heads up on util-linux = 2.7.1-3.2

1998-12-20 Thread Joel Klecker
: application/applefile pmac-utils.postinst Description: Binary data -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:http://web.espy.org/ URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

Re: fwd: Debian sparc32 on Ultra status report (also status of debian-sparc)

1998-12-15 Thread Joel Klecker
At 19:37 -0500 1998-12-14, Steve Dunham wrote: BTW, Ultrapenguin now has a broken libc - they added the register_frame_info bug for Red Hat compatibility It is normal for a glibc compiled with egcs to have the __*_frame_info symbols, that's all the bug is. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy

Re: ash need to be recompiled

1998-11-27 Thread Joel Klecker
/usr/sbin/chroot $R /sbin/ldconfig.new -v -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:http://web.espy.org/ URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-14 Thread Joel Klecker
it finds lots of which aren't implemented, when in reality it would be nice if it ignored them. glibc makes most of its assumptions based on the kernel headers installed at the time it is built, and only does runtime testing in some cases. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sparc autocompile

1998-08-21 Thread Joel Klecker
a workaround for this problem. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://web.espy.org/ Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.debian.org/

glibc 2.0.95 source package

1998-07-31 Thread Joel Klecker
I've made a full source package available at: http://master.debian.org/%7Eespy/glibc/. This has correct binary-pic, and binary-locales targets, and is fully synced with the glibc 2.0.7t Debian packaging. -- Joel Espy Klecker URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://web.espy.org/ -- To

Re: glibc 2.0.94 for testing

1998-07-30 Thread Joel Klecker
At 11:12 -0700 1998-07-29, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 04:27:15PM +0200, Anders Hammarquist wrote: Haven't noticed that one (at least not on the alpha under 2.1.106), but I probably don't want to know... Hmm. I know it appears on intel... I saw a report of dpkg failing with

Re: glibc 2.0.94 for testing

1998-07-28 Thread Joel Klecker
At 11:41 -0700 1998-07-27, Jules Bean wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: BTW, someone needs to build dpkg = 1.4.0.25 for sparc, otherwise, folks running 2.1 kernels will not have fun. What breaks? Everything involving unpacking a .deb. -- Joel Espy KleckerDebian GNU/Linux

Re: glibc 2.0.94 for testing

1998-07-25 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:03 -0700 1998-07-24, Steve Dunham wrote: Same problem as 2.0.93, bash segfaults after running any command. I guess it just doesn't like recent kernels. (I'm running a version 2.1.103 kernel, originally from cvs.) Must be a sparc problem (on certain machines I'm guessing), 2.0.94 works just

Re: Sparc status/my two cents

1998-07-22 Thread Joel Klecker
At 02:26 -0700 1998-07-22, Jonas Oberg wrote: I am a debian developer. It's just that I'm not sure what to do about these sparc packages, I mean, nothing is changed from the maintaners package so it's an NMU, whilst at the same time it itsn't :-) When I compiled the package for sparc, I got these

Re: libc6 (980414) problems

1998-07-10 Thread Joel Klecker
At 6:10 PM -0700 7/9/98, Steve Dunham wrote: I'd like to second this request. I can't get Debian to run on my Sparc 20 with a 2.1.103 CVS kernel. (And the kernel that comes with it won't even boot.) I suspect the problems are related to libc6 (seemingly the only difference between Debian and

Re: Sparc include files broken?

1998-07-08 Thread Joel Klecker
At 7:19 AM -0700 7/7/98, John Goerzen wrote: Can we put these changes into the appropriate file (libc6-dev)? The right solution is to upgrade the sources, later snapshots of glibc 2.1 have /usr/include/netatalk/at.h. The other problem, apparently needs to be solved by using 2.1 kernel headers,

Re: Debian doesn't work on a Sparc 20

1998-07-04 Thread Joel Klecker
At 11:19 PM -0700 7/3/98, Steve Dunham wrote: If I chroot into the Debian partition from my UltraPenguin or the boot ramdisk, I find that bash will segfault after it runs any external command (e.g. ls). ash runs fine, but dpkg complains: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Hmm... powerpc has

Re: Debian S/Linux leaders?

1998-05-22 Thread Joel Klecker
At 20:14 -0300 1998-05-21, Johnie Ingram wrote: Incidentially is there anyone there who can test the installability of Debian/SPARC 2.0? I can't really because my only sparcstation is a server. :-) I'll try an install of Debian/sparc[1] as soon as I actually get some memory installed in my

Fwd: Abstract console backward compat and S/Linux

1998-05-22 Thread Joel Klecker
Geert: forwarding this to debian-sparc to see if anyone there is interested in testing. --- begin forwarded text Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:25:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nathan Hurst

Re: Latest libc6?

1998-04-02 Thread Joel Klecker
At 19:13 -0600 1998-04-01, John Goerzen wrote: I would like to help with these. What is the procedure? Ie, how do the numbers on sparc get changed? Should the maintainer field be updated? Are changes files to be generated? Does dupload handle things for recompilation for another platform

Re: libc6 progress

1998-03-06 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:14 +0100 1998-03-06, Juan Cespedes wrote: I'm not going to upload it yet, I'm going to make sure which packages fail. If someone wants to have a look at it (warning: they may make your system unusable), I'll put it in master.debian.org:/home/cespedes. Would you mind putting the