Re: What is going on with atomics?

A question about --as-needed as an upstream developer who wants to care about more than just Debian or Linux. Am I correct in assuming this will work on any system using GNU binutils? And it doesn't matter whether you are using gcc, clang, etc. What about other OS's such as *BSD, MacOS, etc.? I

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

Hi, Le 2025-01-20 21:21, Sam Hartman a écrit : One of the issues is HOST_NAME_MAX in modules/pam_xauth/pam_xauth.c. It doesn't make much sense to allow arbitrarily long host names. I'm more reserved for path names as there are (arguably pathological) use cases where any fixed limit could be

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

Julien Plissonneau Duquène, le mar. 21 janv. 2025 11:24:31 +0100, a ecrit: > Le 2025-01-20 21:21, Sam Hartman a écrit : > > One of the issues is HOST_NAME_MAX in modules/pam_xauth/pam_xauth.c. > > It doesn't make much sense to allow arbitrarily long host names. I'm more > reserved for path names a

Re: write the fine manual (was Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 06:03:42PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I've saved the worst for last. > > That is of course docbook-to-man. Ingo and I both find the quality of > its output to be execrable. It has been unmaintained for many years and > consistently seems to burn out and drive fro

Re: What is going on with atomics?

Hello everyone, (TL;DR at the end) I've mostly been lurking on Debian mailing lists for a long time, so if you don't know me, I'm John, a Debian Maintainer working on a couple cross toolchains for building the device firmware that *is* free from source, but I pitch in on many packages here and

Re: What is going on with atomics?

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:31:29AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > A question about --as-needed as an upstream developer who wants to > care about more than just Debian or Linux. Am I correct in assuming > this will work on any system using GNU binutils? And it doesn't > matter whether you are usin

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Sam Hartman writes: > >> TL;DR: Is it time for the rest of Debian to stop conforming to HURD's >> lack of maximums for path and hostname? > > The GNU Coding standards say: Avoid arbitrary limits > (. I a

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

Sam Hartman writes: > TL;DR: Is it time for the rest of Debian to stop conforming to HURD's > lack of maximums for path and hostname? The GNU Coding standards say: Avoid arbitrary limits (. That was one of the great inspirations for me

Re: sbuild wiki page - cross compiling section query

On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 18:23 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > * Phil Wyett [2025-01-20 17:10]: > > * A VM with Debian trixie install - standard utilities plus ssh server. > > Which arch has the VM? > > > For --host=arm64 I have to generate an arm64 chroot and install crossbuild- > > essential-a

Bug#1093739: ITP: golang-github-lifenjoiner-dhcpdns -- dhcpdns is a golang package to get the DHCP DNS.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Dorland * Package name: golang-github-lifenjoiner-dhcpdns Version : 0.0.6-1 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/lifenjoiner/dhcpdns * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : dhcpdns is a

Re: What is going on with atomics?

On 21.01.25 22:01, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:31:29AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: A question about --as-needed as an upstream developer who wants to care about more than just Debian or Linux. Am I correct in assuming this will work on any system using GNU binutils? And it d

Bug#1093737: ITP: android-cuttlefish -- Cuttlefish Android Virtual Device companion package

Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: "Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)" Severity: wishlist * Package name: android-cuttlefish Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/google/android-cuttlefish * URL : https://github.com/google/android-cut

Re: What is going on with atomics?

Hi, On 1/22/25 00:31, Theodore Ts'o wrote: I guess I could add an autoconf test to see if the linker barfs on --as-needed, but I'm curious how much this actually matters in practice. From an upstream perspective, I think the best approach is AC_CHECK_LIB([atomic],[main]) That creates a few