On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:52:45PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > [ mips* buildds Cc'ed ] > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:58:34PM +0200, David Kuehling wrote: > > The complete userspace *is* o32, just the kernel is not. I think that > > is a pretty valid way to run a system, compiling the kernel for mips64 > > gives better performance on those machines that can run mips64 code. > > > > A mips64 kernel can run 32 and 64-bit architecture binaries, and has to > > pick one description when asked via 'uname -m'. The 'setarch' tool can > > be used to configure which architecture that is. > > > > I.e. athough my machine usually returns 'mips64' on 'uname -m', after > > running, 'setarch mips' it returns just 'mips'. Maybe that'd be a a > > cleaner way to fix the problem for all package builds? > > I think that's a misconfiguration of the buildds. They're supposed to > put linux32 into the schroot configuration if the kernel arch differs > from the userspace arch, to get the right entry into uname.
It should be fixed right now, but it would be nice to have that in create-chroot.sh as otherwise we might forget next time we create a chroot or setup a machine. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
