Re: Sparc port

2003-02-07 Thread Matthew Rose
On (07/02/03 11:56), Joel Baker wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:12:37PM +, Matthew Rose wrote: > > On (22/10/02 15:44), Joel Baker wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:39:21PM +0100, John Ineson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:07:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > [...]

Re: Sparc port

2003-02-07 Thread Joel Baker
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:12:37PM +, Matthew Rose wrote: > On (22/10/02 15:44), Joel Baker wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:39:21PM +0100, John Ineson wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:07:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Oh, and mentions of patch locations aren

Re: Sparc port

2003-02-07 Thread Matthew Rose
On (22/10/02 15:44), Joel Baker wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:39:21PM +0100, John Ineson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:07:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > [...] > > > Oh, and mentions of patch locations aren't ideal now. Joel's got rather a > > > lot of cleaner ones in his CVS t

Re: Sparc port

2002-10-22 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:39:21PM +0100, John Ineson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:07:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > [...] > > Oh, and mentions of patch locations aren't ideal now. Joel's got rather a > > lot of cleaner ones in his CVS tree, > > Where do I find that? I can't see any r

re: Sparc port

2002-10-22 Thread matthew green
At present, dpkg won't build because it can't find obstack.h, which seems to be part of glibc. Is there a patch for dpkg that I need? isn't obstack part of libiberty? it appears to be from my netbsd toolchain tree.

Re: Sparc port

2002-10-22 Thread John Ineson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:07:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: [...] > Oh, and mentions of patch locations aren't ideal now. Joel's got rather a > lot of cleaner ones in his CVS tree, Where do I find that? I can't see any reference to it in the list archives. At present, dpkg won't build becaus

Re: Sparc port

2002-10-21 Thread Joel Baker
Clearly, I should document the process I recently went through to bootstrap a chroot from zero. I'll try to write something up soon, maybe after I finish banging on the libc12 package. -- *** Joel Baker

Re: Sparc port

2002-10-21 Thread Martin Herren
John Ineson wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, > I have a Sun IPC here that is running NetBSD and yearning for some good > Debian lovin'. I know that other people have expressed an interest in > extending the port to Sparc, so where do we start? Matthew -- did you > ever write those notes you mentioned l

Re: Sparc port

2002-10-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
ld be your GNU config triple followed by your Debian architecture (so probably netbsd-sparc for the sparc port). You also want to modify dpkg-architecture (it's in the scripts directory, IIRC) in much the same way. dpkg is likely to complain about being unable to determine the architecture from

Sparc port

2002-10-21 Thread John Ineson
Hi everyone, I have a Sun IPC here that is running NetBSD and yearning for some good Debian lovin'. I know that other people have expressed an interest in extending the port to Sparc, so where do we start? Matthew -- did you ever write those notes you mentioned last month? -- John Ineson ``It's