Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-01 Thread Koen Holtman
Hi all, Just got back from a vacation without e-mail. I've been reading over the powerpc thread but it will take me a bit to say something intelligent... BTW I do not have access to a powerpc system. Cheers, Koen. On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Dieter Schuster wrote: > Tach auch! > > Am Son, den 2

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-01 Thread Koen Holtman
Hi all, I had to make a big diagram of the thread in order to understand everything. Now I want to summarise where we are, as far as I can determine, and then add some new points. 0) linux 64 bit file support is still a bit of a mess, see the afio history file. 1) in Debian afio 2.4.7-3. Dir

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-01 Thread Koen Holtman
Hi Dirk, Yes, if you want to release -6 into unstable with these makefile changes, I am OK with that. Cheers, Koen. On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > 6) I agree completely with Stephen's conclusions that there may be > >more endianness bugs lurking, so in the short ter

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-02 Thread Koen Holtman
I should problably mention that the bug with the large inode numbers (e.g. after recompiling X) that was discussed earlier today will affect the afio build on all platforms. Cheers, Koen. On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Koen Holt

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-02 Thread Koen Holtman
FYI: this evening I'll be going over the -6 version which I downloaded earlier from http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/edd/code/debian/UnderReview/ When I'm done (hopefully by the end of the evening) I'll mail around a patch file with the fix for the inode bug and any other changes/fixes I ca

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Koen Holtman
Hi all, Thanks for all the testing of my recent patched version. Good to hear that it works.. Dirk: with respect to your question >Does that mean that I should undo the powerpc conditional which removes >those two flags, but can leave them for everything else? I made (on purpose) no explicit