On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 20:22 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > It's still failing to build in the same way, so I have no idea > what changed, and think this bug still affects 1.7-2.
The build script should now fail almost immediately on amd64; the prior method made it look as if things were working when in fact they were not. > Anyway, the previous version (1.6-1.1) was build succesfully, but > now it's not supported anymore? Yes and no. There is no native code generator for amd64 -- at least, not one that anyone has been willing to work on so far. With all of the other changes for 1.7, the code that did work for 1.6 (a C-generating backend) no longer does, and no one had time to work on it. Correcting the build system is possible, but then you end up with .s files containing C source (which of course the assembler does not like). This could be fixed by having amd64 use an older gcc3 front-end, but that's a level of complexity in the packaging that I think is unwarranted for now. I'm going to try to spend some time looking at the x86_64 code generator in the coming months, so perhaps it will be fixed by 1.8 (or 1.9), but clearly the more help available upstream, the more likely it will get done. -- Ciao, al ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Al Stone Alter Ego: Open Source and Linux R&D Debian Developer Hewlett-Packard Company http://www.debian.org E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
