Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-16 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > I don't understand you, ... first you complain that the gtk package is too > > old, > > then you say it is because of a known egcs buug, and there is no solution > > apart >

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-16 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > I don't understand you, ... first you complain that the gtk package is too > old, > then you say it is because of a known egcs buug, and there is no solution > apart > from no compiling the test program that cause problem, and then you said it is > not

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-16 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:17:52PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, luther sven wrote: > > > i think in this case the correct thing to do is to fill a bug against this > > package, did you do it ? > > you state there that the package don't compile, because of so and s

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-16 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > OK, it's not schedule-insns2 then. Try a few others if you can find > them in the docs. yep, you were right. it's -O -fschedule-insns that causes the bug to appear. > 62 lines is great. But, can you grab the bare minimum of the necessary > defi

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 01:17:39AM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > well, maybe you are right, but I found out that it is part of the problem. > Removing it removed the bug. And as you can see I have chopped off 99% of > the code. I could not remove anything more, because whatever I did fixe

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I suspect that alloca itself is not at fault. Anyway well, maybe you are right, but I found out that it is part of the problem. Removing it removed the bug. And as you can see I have chopped off 99% of the code. I could not remove anything mor

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:23:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > This is indeed funny, because I got myself down to just that... bug > tracking. Well, I may say I have been lucky, because I managed to pinpoint > the offending function. Actually there was no bug in testglib.c itself, > rat

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > And here we reach the really "fun" part. I would really appreciate if > you could attempt to produce a test case. I think there is some > information about doing this in the egcs-docs; what it boils down to is > first isolating where in the source

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:17:52PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, luther sven wrote: > > > i think in this case the correct thing to do is to fill a bug against this > > package, did you do it ? > > you state there that the package don't compile, because of so and s

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, luther sven wrote: > i think in this case the correct thing to do is to fill a bug against this > package, did you do it ? > you state there that the package don't compile, because of so and so, > that they should apply the appended patch. and also for such important > packa

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread luther sven
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:24:58PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > i managed to download glib/gtk+ 1.1.12, and compiled it here on my sparc > > station, but on my linux box at home, i tried to launch dbuild on it, and > > was > > gratified

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > i managed to download glib/gtk+ 1.1.12, and compiled it here on my sparc > station, but on my linux box at home, i tried to launch dbuild on it, and was > gratified with an internal compiler error, i had no time to go further into > the > problem, but i

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 01:01:38AM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 09:09 -0500 1999-01-13, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >Theoretically one is supposed to, but a lot don't. In fact, until my > >life calms down a bit, I'm off of -devel. > > I am not aware of any requirement to subscribe to -devel, ev

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-14 Thread Joel Klecker
At 09:09 -0500 1999-01-13, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: Theoretically one is supposed to, but a lot don't. In fact, until my life calms down a bit, I'm off of -devel. I am not aware of any requirement to subscribe to -devel, even though I can keep up with it, I would not expect all or even most p

Re: auto-build failure bug report (was Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc)

1999-01-13 Thread James Troup
Ted Whalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > > > > No, but already working packages can be recompiled at new versions > > > automatically. > > > > True. > > Is it possible for a failure of this auto-compile to automatically file > a bug-report against the package t

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:55:57PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > 2.91.58 is in the tree -- should be egcs-1.1.1 :-) > > > > Yes, that's rather what I thought. Comments? > > Pardon me, but 2.91.60 is 1.1.1, the one that is in the

auto-build failure bug report (was Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc)

1999-01-13 Thread Ted Whalen
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > > No, but already working packages can be recompiled at new versions > > automatically. > > True. Is it possible for a failure of this auto-compile to automatically file a bug-report against the package that won't compile? tew

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 2.91.58 is in the tree -- should be egcs-1.1.1 :-) > > Yes, that's rather what I thought. Comments? Pardon me, but 2.91.60 is 1.1.1, the one that is in the tree is 1.1.1pre right? Konstantinos Margaritis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > We already have porters. I started as one. You don't need a package > > to register as a developer; you just need a way to help. > > 100% true! > > My first debian year i ported m68k packages -- without an own package. >

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> We already have porters. I started as one. You don't need a package > to register as a developer; you just need a way to help. 100% true! My first debian year i ported m68k packages -- without an own package. > What are you doing to egcs 1.1.1, out of curiousity? And is there > really no

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Well, I built qt1.42 with full optimizations, and it works fine. Unless > you're talking about the infamous text-selection bug that is still > there... That's what I meant. And it makes it pretty unusable IMHO. However, without optimizations, it's gone. Now I'm h

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On what machine and using what kernel did you have those problems? I > downloaded the 1.1.1 release source, and it built w/o problems on my 603e > Amiga. well, it is a 603e based umax c500, with 2.1.131 kernel, but I downloaded the debian

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > If there is a compiler error in compare, something is SERIOUSLY wrong. > If something is seriously wrong with egcs 1.1.1 on powerpc, I will not > fix it. I'll upload a snapshot of pre-1.2 instead. Those are > extroardinarily improved over our la

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > > What are you doing to egcs 1.1.1, out of curiousity? And is there > > > really no 1.1.1 in the archive yet for powerpc? If there

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > We already have porters. I started as one. You don't need a package > > to register as a developer; you just need a way to help. > > well, then perhaps I have misund

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > We already have porters. I started as one. You don't need a package > to register as a developer; you just need a way to help. well, then perhaps I have misunderstood the prerequisites for being a developer. If there are no objections then I will

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:36:14PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > We aren't many powerpc developers. Debian is currently in a critical state > > for new patches - some maintainers decided to delay the upload to unstable. > > Just an id

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > We aren't many powerpc developers. Debian is currently in a critical state > for new patches - some maintainers decided to delay the upload to unstable. Just an idea... why don't introduce a 'porter'? That is, debian developers probably have too much

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-13 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> I don't intend to offend anyone, but I would rather see more frequent > ports of packages for the ppc, which IMHO seems a little stale to me these We aren't many powerpc developers. Debian is currently in a critical state for new patches - some maintainers decided to delay the upload to unstable

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 04:38:18PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > You noticed there how much time is involved in being a developer. Add > > that in to how few developers have powerpcs and how busy we are outside > > of the project. I

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > You noticed there how much time is involved in being a developer. Add > that in to how few developers have powerpcs and how busy we are outside > of the project. I'm not offended, but it's not going to make me more > active, either. Also, the past

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:49:53PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > Seeing that we were stuck with ancient versions of glib and gtk for the > powerpc, while other platforms were having binaries of the latest, I have > created binaries of both glib 1.1.12 and gtk1.1.12 for the powerpc. > S

glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Seeing that we were stuck with ancient versions of glib and gtk for the powerpc, while other platforms were having binaries of the latest, I have created binaries of both glib 1.1.12 and gtk1.1.12 for the powerpc. Sure there was a problem with glib which prevented both packages from appearing as b