Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 17:44 +0000 schrieb Wookey: > I anyone is aware of packages where it really isn't possible to do an > automatic bootstrap without a circular dependency (for the initial > bootstrap build), I would like to know about it.
again, GHC comes to mind. When I ported it to s390x, I had to use an old version (6.4.2), find some 64bit patches that were used by someone to port it to powerpc64 (https://slyfox.ath.cx/ghc/patches/6.4.2/) and built it partly on s390, copied the generated C files, and then finished the build on s390x. Then I used that to build 6.10.1, working around a bug by manually building one file of the compiler without optimization. And then I build 7.0.4 (the current version) using that file. Certainly not something that is worth automating... If you get the impression that upstream does not care too much about exotic architectures – then you are right. Unfortunately, that is nothing that we can change easily. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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