Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-20 Thread Alec Leamas
config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276) On Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 at 15:29:39 GMT, Michael Schwendt wrote: One problem with that is, one cannot "blindly" run autoreconf -fi and expect it to be 100% compatible with the mu

RE: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Masters
and their upstream) is good. Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -Original Message- From: Ben Boeckel [maths...@gmail.com] Received: Thursday, 20 Jun 2013, 7:53 To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-20 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 at 15:29:39 GMT, Michael Schwendt wrote: > One problem with that is, one cannot "blindly" run autoreconf -fi and > expect it to be 100% compatible with the multitude of Autotools' based > projects. Typically one will need to update the configure script, m4 > macros as well as M

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:37:19 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > Let me be more specific: > * If upstream uses a modern autotools, than "autoreconf" should be preferred > (IMO). > * If not, we should advise them to modernize (and if we can, try to help > them). > IIRC, that has been suggested in the m

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 16:57 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > On 2013-06-17 16:43, Jerry James wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser wrote: > >> I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > >> should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 17 June 2013 22:58:53 Alec Leamas wrote: > On 2013-06-17 21:17, Jerry James wrote: > > ... I'd rather not spend the small amount of time I can devote to > > open source software work messing with a configure script just because > > somebody thinks they should be able to run autoreconf wi

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 16:57 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > On 2013-06-17 16:43, Jerry James wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser wrote: > >> I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > >> should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 08:43 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser wrote: > > I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > > should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid > > lots of possible problems caused by

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-06-17 21:17, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: Isn't the proper solution then to patch the config files to get rid of the obsolete macros? Such patches should certainly be acceptable upstream. If I have some other reason for needing to touch the con

Re: rpm and config.{guess,sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Seg, 2013-06-17 at 11:39 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > In the Fedora spirit of "everything buildable from clean sources", I > think > the "autoreconf" solution should be globally adopted (regardless of > aarch64): > * It doesn't use generated files as input to the build process. > * It delegate

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: > Isn't the proper solution then to patch the config files to get rid of the > obsolete macros? Such patches should certainly be acceptable upstream. If I have some other reason for needing to touch the configure script, then sure. (In fact, I

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:06 +0200, Björn Esser wrote: > I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > should be mandatory in packages using autotools. One problem with that is, one cannot "blindly" run autoreconf -fi and expect it to be 100% compatible with the multitu

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-06-17 16:43, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser wrote: I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid lots of possible problems caused by just injecting config.{gu

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Björn Esser wrote: > I completely agree to this. Using `autoreconf -fi` in %build or %prep > should be mandatory in packages using autotools. This will surely avoid > lots of possible problems caused by just injecting config.{guess,sub} by > %configure. That would

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:04:02 +0200 Dan Horák wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:44:52 +0200 > Simone Caronni wrote: > > > On 17 June 2013 03:13, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > > we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I > > > know

Re: rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Björn Esser
Am Montag, den 17.06.2013, 11:39 +0300 schrieb Oron Peled: > On Monday 17 June 2013 02:13:06 Sérgio Basto wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying follow this (aarch64 support) but > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257#c1 > > > > "could/should be closed now, as this is done automatically fro

rpm and config.{guess, sub} (was [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276)

2013-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 17 June 2013 02:13:06 Sérgio Basto wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying follow this (aarch64 support) but > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257#c1 > > "could/should be closed now, as this is done automatically from % > configure", so no need update it anymore ? > > we had updated d

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Simone Caronni
On 17 June 2013 09:04, Dan Horák wrote: > the fedora-packager package provides wrappers for the koji command for > all secondary architectures in Fedora in the form ${arch}-koji, where > arch can be arm, ppc and s390, so you can use > > arm-koji build --scratch f19 your.src.rpm > Oh, thanks, I d

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-17 Thread Dan Horák
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:44:52 +0200 Simone Caronni wrote: > On 17 June 2013 03:13, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I know > > if dpkg is now ready for aarch64 ? > > > > I've discovered you can trigger builds for the ARM Koji instance with >

Re: [aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-16 Thread Simone Caronni
On 17 June 2013 03:13, Sérgio Basto wrote: > we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I know if > dpkg is now ready for aarch64 ? > I've discovered you can trigger builds for the ARM Koji instance with your account: koji --server=http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/kojihub bui

[aarch64 bugs] dpkg: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide bug #925276

2013-06-16 Thread Sérgio Basto
Hi, I'm trying follow this (aarch64 support) but https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257#c1 "could/should be closed now, as this is done automatically from % configure", so no need update it anymore ? we had updated dpkg some major versions sine bug opened, how I know if dpkg is now

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 03/23/2013 04:12 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> Eventually there will be hardware available but I'm not sure when >> that will be as there's not been anything publicly announced.

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 03/23/2013 04:12 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Eventually there will be hardware available but I'm not sure when > that will be as there's not been anything publicly announced. > Ultimately we're very much in the prep stages for a mass re

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Jon Masters
On 03/23/2013 06:12 PM, Jonathan Masters wrote: > ARM deprecate endian switching in ARMv7+ application (server) profiles. It is > possible to do big endian but with external hardware assistance. We will be > an LP64 little endian architecture with a relaxed memory model. Ping me with > questions

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Jon Masters
On 03/23/2013 10:14 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in > some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a > way to actually run test builds? As Peter says, there will be an updated F19-ish filesystem image soon. Th

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Jonathan Masters
eived: Saturday, 23 Mar 2013, 17:37 To: Development discussions related to Fedora [devel@lists.fedoraproject.org] Subject: Re: aarch64 bugs On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 07:35:08PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Do you know what proc

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Jonathan Masters
(www.nitrodesk.com) -Original Message- From: Peter Robinson [pbrobin...@gmail.com] Received: Saturday, 23 Mar 2013, 15:35 To: Development discussions related to Fedora [devel@lists.fedoraproject.org] Subject: Re: aarch64 bugs On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 07:35:08PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Do you know what processor features ('flags') will be available in the > > first shipping hardware? > > Nope, although I will find out, what particular bits do you need

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:12:13PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, >> > Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> >> >> >> Yesterday a bunch of bugs w

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:12:13PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, > > Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > >> > >> Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in > >> some packages. I'd

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, > Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> >> Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in >> some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a >> way to actually run t

Re: aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:14:52 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a way to actually run test builds? I know that there's ARM support in the works, but I haven'

aarch64 bugs

2013-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Yesterday a bunch of bugs were opened up regarding aarch64 support in some packages. I'd like to do my part in fixing these, but is there a way to actually run test builds? I know that there's ARM support in the works, but I haven't really kept up with the details. -- Jeff Ollie -- devel mailin