On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:58:07PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > So hppa is the Debian name for HP PA-RISC. Reading a bit about this > architecture on Wikipedia, I get the felling that it's what HP-UX ran > on. HP-UX _is_ supported by ROOT, but Linux on HP PA-RISC isn't (yet).
Yes, HP-UX is HP's operating system for PA-RISC and Itanium. > So my questions: > > * Does the 64bit version of HP PA-RISC work in a 32bit > compatibility mode? That is, how come there's no Debian > architectures hppa32 and hppa64? This has implications for what > `close architecture' to implement support from. Userland is complete 32bit > * Is the HP PA-RISC a little endian or big endian machine? Big Endian > * Is there any common pit-falls with this architecture? I'm not really a porter, I just happen to own a HPPA machine and run the buildd for experimental on it. So I really don't know. > * If it's not possible to get ROOT working on this platform, would > there be a way to exclude that architecture when building > packages? I'd rather make exceptions to `all' then provide a > positive list (which is harder to maintain). AFAIK there is currently no good (and supported) way to do that. [...] > For some reason, the MySQL header includes `asm/atomic.h' which for some > reason isn't available. I realise that this is a problem with MySQL on > that platform, but what to do about it? The file should be in the > `linux-kernel-headers' package, which I assume is installed on the amd64 [...] Note that linux-kernel-headers is currently replaced by linux-libc-dev which is directly built from the kernel package. You should check whether the new package is already installed on the buildd (grep for linux-kernel-headers in the build log, if it is marked as PROVIDED, the new package is installed) and if it is simply a bug in the new package. That was the reason for a build failure of one of my packages last week. [...] > Oh, and one last comment. How come, if I do a search on > > http://experimental.ftbfs.de/build.php > > for "root-system" and architecture "any", I get nothing? Hmm, seems to be a bug, since http://experimental.ftbfs.de/build.php?pkg=root-system&arch=hppa works. Will ask the admins. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
