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  • Bug#231602: any chance?

    From Barak Pearlmutter@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 12 21:00:13 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Any chance of getting a newer version into the release?

    --Barak.
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    Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
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  • From Rob Browning@1:229/2 to Barak Pearlmutter on Thu Aug 12 22:20:07 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Barak Pearlmutter <[email protected]> writes:

    Any chance of getting a newer version into the release?

    I don't know -- I got stuck on something last time I was messing with
    it, and so I'll have to go back and figure out where I was. I don't
    remember for sure, but I think one of the issues may have been that
    given the current setup, we'd have to ship one huge .c file, one per
    arch, and I was trying to figure out a way around that since that
    would be *really* ugly. I think I did get a reply I needed, but
    didn't have a chance to pursue it. It looked like most of the .c
    files didn't differ in any meaningful way.

    There was also the 64-bit (alpha?) linker issue, but presuming I can't
    get a suitable patch, we might be able to just drop the affected architecture(s) for now. The biggest slowdown is that testing any
    changes takes a very big machine and a lot of time to bootstrap.

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  • From Barak Pearlmutter@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 12 23:00:12 2004
    From: [email protected]

    The GCC tool chain has been pretty substantially updated, so it is
    possible that the linker issue on the Alpha has gone away.

    Maybe instead of distributing a separate enormous C file for each
    arch, distribute it for one arch and also distribute a bunch of patch
    files "diff --ignore-space-change" for every other arch. Or something
    like that?

    --Barak.


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  • From Rob Browning@1:229/2 to Barak Pearlmutter on Thu Aug 12 23:10:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Barak Pearlmutter <[email protected]> writes:

    The GCC tool chain has been pretty substantially updated, so it is
    possible that the linker issue on the Alpha has gone away.

    Maybe instead of distributing a separate enormous C file for each
    arch, distribute it for one arch and also distribute a bunch of patch
    files "diff --ignore-space-change" for every other arch. Or something
    like that?

    Right, if I recall right, what I was asking upstream was more or less
    just "if it looks like there's no (relevant) diff between the files, is
    there any reason I can't just use one arch file for all the "same"
    arches?", though it was a little more than that because there were
    issues regarding stability. I'll have to check, but I think the
    answer was that it should be fine.

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  • From Rob Browning@1:229/2 to Rob Browning on Fri Aug 13 23:30:14 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Rob Browning <[email protected]> writes:

    Barak Pearlmutter <[email protected]> writes:

    Any chance of getting a newer version into the release?

    I don't know -- I got stuck on something last time I was messing
    with it, and so I'll have to go back and figure out where I was.

    OK, I figured out where I was, and I was closer than I thought. I may
    be able to upload new packages in the next day or so.

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    Rob Browning
    rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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