On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:23 -0200, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:44:47 +0100, Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 04-Dec-08 11:34, Sven Luther wrote: > > I have prepared a patch for the glibc package which makes glibc compile > > and work for ppc64. The patch can be found at > > > > http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/patches/glibc_2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.gcc4.patch > > > > The patch creates a large 22 MB file > > > > 'debian/patches/10_cvs20041202.dpatch' > > > > with the diff between glibc-2.3.2 and the current glibc CVS version > > as well as a list of Debian patches 'debian/patches/00list.ppc64' which > > still have to be applied to the current CVS glibc. This '00list.ppc64' > > is used _instead_ of the normal '00list' for ppc64. The rest of the > > patch basically adds 'ppc64' at the appropriate places. Please note that > > this patch is work in progress. It is only two days old and it will > > likely need some changes. > I was using gcc-3.4 and a much smaller (attached) patch was enough to > build it. I agree that it is better to upgrade llibc but a simple > patch can be merged first. > > Is there some big problem the in current debian glibc that I haven't hit?
Appart that it's completely outdated, doesn't support TLS and NPTL on ppc32, probably doesn't support altivec in contexts, etc... well ... Ben.
