Re: glibc-2.3.4 mips64 compilation failure

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:22:47PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > > It's buried in:
> > >   http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2004-12/msg00063.html
> > 
> > ... not that those will be very useful to you, unless you want to
> > suddenly become Fedora.  They'll only be useful to Debian once in a
> > blue moon.
> 
>  Thanks for the link and indeed -- I don't think we have any setup 
> available that would qualify as a "distribution" as referred to by the 
> rules.  Especially as for MIPS you'd have to multiply that by three for 
> the supported ABIs.
> 
>  As a result we have no glibc release that would work for a reasonably 
> modern setup of MIPS/Linux.

HEAD does work, however.  I will even get around to the MIPS64 NPTL
bits for HEAD very soon.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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