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neumann at lostwebsite.ne
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:32 am Reply with quote
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tags 328031 + pending
thanks

Hello all

this patch has been sent to me through Debian Bug Tracking system by Jurij
Smakov.

Link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328031

Here is what he has to say about the patch:

"I am forwarding the information from upstream to the bug so that it will
not get lost (see below). I've checked the build procedure and, indeed,
the architecture detection is done by looking at the output of 'uname -m'.
On Solaris this returns "sun4u" on ultrasparc hardware, our kernel returns
'sparc64'. I've made a simple patch against configure.ac (attached), which
fixes the detection. When I apply this patch and the one mentioned
earlier, the package builds fine. So if you have the reason to upload the
10.b.9 soon, please include them, at least it will not die while building
on sparc.

I see two other issues to take care of: the unreliability of the floating
point exceptions which upstream mentioned, and the special flags which are
passed to the assembler while building erlang. The former I'll have to
look into, the latter might prevent the resulting binaries from working on
sparc32 hardware. However, whether the support for such hardware will be
included in etch is uncertain at this point, so this is not of immediate
concern."

I will include the patch in the Debian package, but I think it should also be
considered for upstream inclusion.


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