2010/1/25 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>: > Thanks to Matt's hard work, it looks like the -dev version of the book > now has over half the packages updated from the current stable release. > > There only a couple of minor tickets outstanding. We are at > Linux-2.6.32 which has been designated for long term support. > > I am proposing that we make a -rc1 release next weekend with a target > 6.6 stable release around the 1st of March. > > Comments? > > -- Bruce > -- I've got one issue on 64-bit - I eventually build gnumeric. That pulls in perl's dynaloader (seems to be for embedding perl).
Gnumeric fails to build on x86_64 unless I pass --without-perl because of relocation errors from libperl while trying to link perl_loader.so. On i?86 it's ok to mix static and shared objects in a shared lib, on x86_64 they don't link. The simplest fix is to configure perl with -Duseshrplib=Y. That certainly builds on i?86, but it looks as if it passes -fPIC all over the place. I haven't compared the sizes of the installed perl files on i686, so I don't know if that would be a benign change. I also haven't identified what changes in gnumeric - all the functionality I rely on seems to be there, it's just a pain having to tweak the configure. Presumably, anything else that embeds perl might have a similar problem (but, the only obvious candidate was apache, which seemed not to care). If there was a way of easily adding the extra configure switch to x86_64 only, that would be good, but my ideas so far have been ugly. Measuring this is on my ToDo list, but for the moment I don't have time. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
