On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:02 -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Hi, over the past week or two I've been working on bootstrapping Debian > packages for x32. As of now, linux-libc-dev is the last remaining package > before I have enough built (at least with by-hand builds) to be able to do a > debootstrap. > > So, I've been trying to add x32 support to the linux-2.6 version in > experimental, but I'm stuck. I tried copying debian/config/amd64 to > debian/config/x32 and debian/installer/amd64 to debian/installer/x32, and > regenerating debian/control, but the new architecture still isn't registering > in debian/rules.gen:
But x32 is a partial architecture; there will never be a kernel or installer for it. The current kernel package doesn't support that at all. > dh_testdir > /usr/bin/make -f debian/rules.gen source_x32 > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lfs/src/debian/linux-2.6/linux-2.6-3.4.1' > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `source_x32'. Stop. > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lfs/src/debian/linux-2.6/linux-2.6-3.4.1' > make: *** [debian/stamps/source-base] Error 2 > > According to debian/rules, it looks like debian/rules.gen is auto-generated > by > debian/bin/gencontrol.py, along with debian/control. Yes. > So -- what am I missing that I need to get x32 rules generated? How can I tell you that when you haven't shown your work so far? > Also, could I request that CONFIG_X86_X32 be enabled for amd64? I don't want to do that unless the project makes a decision to support x32. Which I don't think it will. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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