[Xenomai-core] Xenomai 2.6.0 in Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, thanks for Xenomai 2.6.0! I'm attaching a patch that's helpful for the integration of Xenomai in Debian (and FHS compliant systems in general), moving the architecture dependent test programs from /usr/share to /usr/lib. Thanks in advance, Roland ---

Re: [Xenomai-core] [Xenomai-help] Xenomai 2.6.0-rc1

2011-09-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On 09/06/2011 01:31 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: currently 2.6.0-rc1 fails to build on 2.4 kernel, with errors related to vfile support. Do we really want to still support 2.4 kernels? No worries here from the Debian (and derivatives) perspective. bye, Roland

Re: [Xenomai-core] Bug#637425: gcc-4.6 issue

2011-08-12 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On 08/12/2011 01:18 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: The following patch seems to do the trick. It makes the assumption that when compiling with -fomit-frame-pointer, we have one more register, so the R constraint will always be able to avoid choosing eax, and eax will be free for the

Re: [Xenomai-core] gcc-4.6 issue

2011-08-11 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On 08/11/2011 04:48 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: I compiled linux 2.6.38.8 and xenomai-head with gcc-4.6. The obtained kernel boots fine but xenomai services do not: latency hangs right after the sched_setscheduler system call. With the same kernel I compiled user space with gcc-4.4 and

[Xenomai-core] New Debian source package format 3.0

2010-05-15 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, for some time now, Debian has the new source package version 3.0 [1] to which I'm currently migrating the Xenomai package. This has the following consequences: * I don't need to repackage the upstream tarball anymore, since with the new format, dpkg supports bzip2 besides gz, among others

Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] debian: sync with 2.5.2-2 from debian.org,

2010-05-06 Thread Roland Stigge
On 05/04/2010 08:11 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: What I meant is that we could artificially increment the library ABI version, so that we get in-line with the package name. Of course, we pretend we broke the ABI whereas we did not really do it, but it looks harmless (but is it really?).

Re: [Xenomai-core] [announce] Xenomai v2.5.3

2010-05-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: here comes Xenomai v2.5.3, codenamed Hordes Of Locusts available from Xenomai download area: http://download.gna.org/xenomai/stable/xenomai-2.5.3.tar.bz2 Just uploaded to Debian as xenomai-2.5.3-1. Thanks! bye, Roland

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai in Debian

2010-05-02 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Stefan, Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote: I have attached a patch against debian xenomai version 2.5.1-4, changes: - create group xenomai on install - added a init-script which sets /sys/.../xenomai_gid if /sys/.../xenomai_gid exists - added a modprobe-script that adds the xenomai_gid

Re: [Xenomai-core] [announce] Xenomai v2.5.2

2010-03-29 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi! Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: here comes Xenomai v2.5.2, codenamed Souls Of Distortion available from Xenomai download area: http://download.gna.org/xenomai/stable/xenomai-2.5.2.tar.bz2 Cool, thanks! I'm attaching a patch from Debian. I needed to introduce it because without it,

[Xenomai-core] Xenomai in Debian

2010-02-07 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I'm just working on the Xenomai 2.5.1 Debian package and encountered non-PIC code (evil! ;-) in the shared libraries (skins libraries). You can see it with e.g. $ readelf -d src/skins/native/.libs/libnative.so.3.0.0 The TEXTREL tag indicates non-PIC code. $ scanelf -qT

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai v2.4.4

2008-06-09 Thread Roland Stigge
High, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: A special note for Roland: the configure script now allows configuring Xenomai on ARM for a generic machine, which should be suitable for generating Debian packages for ARM. Thanks! :-) By the way: lintian(1) detects several empty *.map files which weren't

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai v2.4.4

2008-06-09 Thread Roland Stigge
Roland Stigge wrote: By the way: lintian(1) detects several empty *.map files which weren't empty in 2.4.3. i.e. arm_2hal_8c__incl.map blackfin_2hal_8c__incl.map blackfin_2nmi_8c__incl.map generic_2hal_8c__incl.map generic_2nmi_8c__incl.map hal__32_8c__incl.map hal__64_8c__incl.map hal

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package xenomai-2.4.3-4 available

2008-05-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: the way Debian maintained a patch to the ssh package is the reason why a bug could remain unnoticed during two years in Debian distributions, including so-called stable distributions. So, maybe it is time for a change. First, it doesn't matter most how you

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package xenomai-2.4.3-4 available

2008-05-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: What I criticize is patching without submitting patches upstream, or without consulting upstream package maintainers, or making debian patches hard to apply upstream. I both submitted to Xenomai upstream and provided an easy patch (not even assuming the

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package xenomai-2.4.3-4 available

2008-05-26 Thread Roland Stigge
) unstable; urgency=low + + * New upstream release + + -- Roland Stigge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 26 May 2008 11:58:30 +0200 + +xenomai (2.4.3-7) unstable; urgency=low + + * Included patch from Riku Voipio to fix ARM compile issues +(Closes: #477720) + + -- Roland Stigge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package xenomai-2.4.3-4 available

2008-05-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: Shipping the xenomai tarball with the debian directory has a real added value: it allows people to build debian package without anything else, this is an unofficial package, of course, but it can be built before the Debian patch is generated. Well, for people

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package xenomai-2.4.3-4 available

2008-05-25 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Gilles, thanks for your response. ;-))) Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: I am trying to merge the debian changes back into Xenomai, however, I have two problems: - I can not find back the 2.4.3-4 patch, I only find 2.4.3-7; No problem - always just take the latest one, currently 2.4.3-7. - I

Re: [Xenomai-core] warning: symlink-is-self-recursive

2008-04-22 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Roland Stigge wrote: = W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/include/xenomai/asm-generic/xenomai . N: N: The symbolic link is recursive to a higher directory of the symlink N: itself. This means

[Xenomai-core] Debian package xenomai-2.4.3-4 available

2008-04-19 Thread Roland Stigge
[Warning: First in a series of several issues applicable to xenomai.org's code.] Hi, at http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xenomai.html, you can find the latest version of Debian's package xenomai. The diff to xenomai 2.4.3 applies to the normal Xenomai distribution with an empty debian/ directory.

[Xenomai-core] klatency run script

2008-04-19 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, for the creation of the run script for klatency, I propose the attached change to make it a proper executable (script). Thanks for considering, Roland --- src/testsuite/klatency/Makefile.am.orig 2008-04-19 21:33:42.0 +0200 +++ src/testsuite/klatency/Makefile.am 2008-04-19

[Xenomai-core] Debian lintian warning: symlink-is-self-recursive

2008-04-19 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Debian's lintian(1), the package checker, tells me: = W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/include/xenomai/asm-generic/xenomai . N: N: The symbolic link is recursive to a higher directory of the symlink N:

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai/SOLO - RTOS emulation for standard Linux

2008-03-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Is it worth providing a separate xenomai-solo package in Debian right now (considering it being propagated to Debian 5.0 and supported there in this form until ca. 2010), or should we wait until Xenomai/SOLO is integrated into Xenomai mainline? Integration into

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai/SOLO - RTOS emulation for standard Linux

2008-03-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Wolfgang Denk wrote: If it comes to hard, reliable real-time behaviour, we recommend Xenomai/ipipe to all our customers. However, there are some who think it is important to have an original, unpatched kernel.org source tree. These obviously run for PREEMPT_RT, and SOLO. Please

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai/SOLO - RTOS emulation for standard Linux

2008-03-23 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Wolfgang Denk wrote: DENX Software Engineering is proud to announce Xenomai/SOLO, the new RTOS emulator that runs as a normal user-space application on a standard Linux kernel. Of course, when timing requirements have to be met, a real-time capable Linux kernel with the PREEMPT_RT support

Re: [Xenomai-core] [Fwd: Bug#471871: xenomai-runtime: bashism in /bin/sh script]

2008-03-22 Thread Roland Stigge
Jan Kiszka wrote: Maybe someone with idle cycles left could have a look at this. Idle? Preempted, at most! Attached is what I will apply to the Debian version. Feel free to do as well... bye, Roland diff -u scripts.orig/xeno-info scripts/xeno-info --- scripts.orig/xeno-info 2007-12-09

[Xenomai-core] Wiki update: Debian package

2008-03-21 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I just updated the information on the Debian package page at http://xenomai.org/index.php/Building_Debian_packages . For corrections for this page and the Debian package, feel free to contact me. Thanks, Roland ___ Xenomai-core mailing list

Re: [Xenomai-core] Script marking

2008-02-29 Thread Roland Stigge
Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: Further, I updated the package in Debian with the suggested changes. We trust you, please send patches. The attached patch (and the latest version of it) can also always be found at the Debian developer's package page for Xenomai at

Re: [Xenomai-core] Script marking

2008-02-29 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: I see that xenomai packages depends on glibc version = 2.7.1. Is this dependency really needed ? Without this dependency it would be possible to compile the Xenomai package for older versions of Debian. This is an automatically generated dependency at package

[Xenomai-core] Xenomai in Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, thanks to the previous Debian packaging work of Paul Corner (and of course, all the Xenomai core developers), we now have xenomai officially in Debian (i.e. Debian sid, ready for the next Debian release lenny). For Debian related bugs, please use the Bug Tracking System at bugs.debian.org.

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I hope you don't mind that we move this to the xenomai-core mailing list with CC, since I fear the same questions will be raised again there at some point. Jan Kiszka wrote: Now the next question: You are providing i386 packages so far. Do you have plans for x86-64 as well? The respective

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Also, xenomai could run in a IA64 .. Anyone tested it? I can just declare it in the Debian package. If it's untested, maybe I need to dedicate one of the IA64 machines here to Xenomai... :-) Roland ___ Xenomai-core

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai in Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Gilles, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: The current help on Xenomai Debian packages is: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/Building_Debian_packages Is this documentation still valid when using pre-built packages ? Thanks for the note! The binary package list changed to adjust to Debian

Re: [Xenomai-core] Debian package

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Jan Kiszka wrote: Ah, I see... that powerpc already failed. :- Of course... The DEBIAN/control hackery is operating on an architecture independent package (linux-patch-xenomai), while only building the architecture dependent packages on the build daemons... Will be fixed in next revision...

Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai in Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: The binary package list changed to adjust to Debian conventions: xenomai-runtime linux-patch-xenomai libxenomai1 libxenomai-dev xenomai-doc So, I need to install all these packages, then continue at make-kpkg ? Similar to the Wiki description before.