On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:57:30AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > As already mentioned with the next gcc release all reported bug should be
-17? > fixed, that of course doesn't mean there can't be any bugs left, just that > it gets more difficult to find them now. Recompiling with -O0 is a good > indicator, if it now suddenly works, it's more likely to be a compiler > problem. > > Now to bugs/problems in other packages (bug reports contain the needed > information to fix them): > > apbs: the problem is the maloc package, which got hit by the binutils > problem, so needs to be recompiled. givenback > binutils/insight : problem in the kernel headers, #391898, "luckily" it > hit other ports too, so there will hopefully be a new package soon, > although no ack yet. > csound: it's using unusual compiler options, fixed with next gcc > gnusound: endian bug, #393754 > ocamlcreal: somehow ocamldep is broken, a recompile of ocaml did fix > this here. ocaml binNMU scheduled > qprof: there is finally a new libatomic dep-waited on new libatomic-ops > stlport5: as soon as the new glibc is ready, this should succeed as well > chicken: actually an alignment problem with its assumption about alloca(), > but I'm lazy and rather adjusted gcc. > monotone: #384565, I got an ack, since it affects other ports too, let's > hope something will happen. > gauche: another libgc problem, #393601 > gnu-smalltalk: alignment problem, #198075 > tex problems: compiler problem, small bug in one of my patches, > recompiling gs-gpl with the next gcc will fix this. > guile-1.6: another alignment problem, #326905 > emacs21: somehow got magically fixed, just retry with new gcc givenback > at-spi: the new xsltproc seems to work better, so another retry givenback > libgstreamer hangs: even more alignment problems in orbit2, #390516 > > Unfortunately in many cases I got no response, some things got fixed after > another mail (e.g. glibc, mcmcpack, qt4-x11). IMO orbit2 is a good first > NMU candidate, as it waits the longest without any response and is rather > important for all sorts of gnome stuff. 18 days with patch, not built since Jun 23. We should probably check with -release to make sure we don't screw up some transition or other. Someone want to take this? > Overall it looks pretty good, a bit more stuff may need a recompile, but > right now I don't see anything really serious, the main problem is to get > above bugs fixed and then we'll have to see what is left after everything > is finally compiled. Does blender need to wait for -17 or do I need to send you the latest preprocessed source? I'll try to remember to walk through this list again after the next gcc comes out, but feel free to remind me. ;) -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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