Greetings! Thanks to Wookey's generous machine support, I believe this bug is now closed with the latest uploads.
The arm binary file format apparently changed with gcc-4.2. I had to install a local version or gcc-4.2 to reproduce. The solution is to incorporate the latest binutils as well. Still a bit mysteriously, gcc-4.2 produces code giving an illegal instruction on Wookey's netwinder. I guessed that this was a local installation issue, apparently correctly, as gcl has autobuilt successfully on arm with the latest gcc and binutils. Would be nice to get a gcc-4.2 working on this test machine, though, as it appears the only arm development machine in the Debian world at the moment. Take care, Wookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-11-19 11:03 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! OK I seem unable to reproduce the gcl/toolchain list of > > arm failures when rebuilding gcl on your armel box. Could the problem > > be arm specific? > > Very easily, yes. Packing and FP are both more 'normal' on armel than > on arm. > > > Is your netwinder accessible? > > It will be tomorrow. I've just aasked someone to take a look now. > > > Can one execute arm binaries under armel? > > Yes, if 'old abi' functionality has been enabled in the kernel. > You need an old-arm chroot though. I'll set one up on tunnocks. I'm > intending to set up an identical old-arm balloon next tunnocks for > this sort of comparison, but not done yet. > > > > Is the simplest thing to requeue gcl and all dependencies? > > Be good to check it is fixed first. > > > I'd like to upload an effective binnmu myself through > > the normal channels -- is there a way to do this, or is this by > > request only? > > Not sure what the status is these days. binNMUs are discouraged these > days - I think they prefer you to do a normal NMU with a ~b version > suffix IIRC. > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian > http://wookware.org/ > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
