Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-18 Thread John David Anglin
Hi Aurelien, On 18-Jun-13, at 6:05 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: This is true that they have recently contacted me through another email address, but I haven't found time to work on that. Just stay tuned. That's great news. Helge and I have been working away as best we can to maintain the po

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 13.06.2013 16:46, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > > Hi, > > > > On 13/06/13 13:51, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> GCC 4.8 is now the default on all x86 architectures, and on all ARM > >> architectures (the latter confirmed by the Debia

Re: Log for attempted build of gzip_1.6-1 on m68k (dist=unstable)

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/18/13 12:32, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > what do I do to investigate this: I'd try 'strace -f -o trace.txt make check' and then look for what system calls failed and why. It's not a gzip bug, whatever it is. It's a bug in perl, or in the shell, or ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68

Re: Second virtual buildd for m68k

2013-06-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: > I'm pretty sure that you probably get more power on Intel CPUs. We > have even faster CPUs at the department. Core i7 something over > 1000 Euros per CPU :). Well I don’t, I get much, significantly much, less. ARAnyM, or full-system emulation in general, has ve

jemalloc (was Re: Log for attempted build of varnish_3.0.3-1 on m68k (dist=unstable))

2013-06-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
In case there’s more boredom: jemalloc is used by several projects and needs porting, as it’s apparently architecture-dependent crap… I can’t imagin why, for a malloc, but… so it is. And submitting that port to jemalloc upstream, plus ask all of its downstreams to merge that, so that Debian’ll ha

Re: Second virtual buildd for m68k

2013-06-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/18/2013 09:42 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Check it’s not HT, and check the BogoMIPS. As I said, I got *double* speed per host GHz on an AMD X4. Pretty sure it's a real quad core, BogoMIPS reads quite sufficient: glaubitz@z6:~> dmesg |grep -i bogo [0.02] Calibrating delay loop (ski

Re: Second virtual buildd for m68k

2013-06-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: > next to elgar :). It has 8GB of memory and a 3.10 GHz quad core > Xeon CPU. Check it’s not HT, and check the BogoMIPS. As I said, I got *double* speed per host GHz on an AMD X4. > Would it be possible to set up another aranym build there? Would > anyone be will

Re: Log for attempted build of gzip_1.6-1 on m68k (dist=unstable)

2013-06-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, what do I do to investigate this: zgrep-signal: set-up failure: signal handling busted on this host ERROR: zgrep-signal This is from a Debian/m68k autobuilder log; more context: # TOTAL: 15 # PASS: 14 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 1 .. contents:: :depth: 2 ERROR: z

multi_defconfig (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] m68k/q40: Enable PC parallel port in defconfig)

2013-06-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Geert Uytterhoeven dixit: >and multi-platform defconfigs. How big is such a multi-platform image, and does it work on all of the platforms? Maybe we can replace all those Debian kernel flavours (amiga, atari, bvme*, mac, 2x mvme*) with one from that, enabling *much* faster building times, and pu

Second virtual buildd for m68k

2013-06-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi there, recently checking the status of our buildds, I realized it might be nice to have another virtual buildd for m68k set up. I have a relatively big workstation which I use for Debian development which is connected through a symmetric 1GBit line to the internet (DFN - German Research Netwo