Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter@×××××××.us>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:24:19
Message-Id: 56AF243C.5020001@triadic.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port by Alex McWhirter
1 No change in 9999, which is strange. Maybe i was wrong about the fix for
2 gold.
3
4 On 01/29/2016 07:55 PM, Alex McWhirter wrote:
5 > On 01/29/2016 07:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 >> On 29 Jan 2016 19:28, Alex McWhirter wrote:
7 >>> Regarding the issue with pcitutils, it is indeed and issue with gold. It
8 >>> turns out udev is broken as well, as in it wont start.
9 >>>
10 >>> binutils has supposedly fixed this issue upstream, i may try to emerge
11 >>> 9999 later tonight. perhaps eudev fairs a bit better than udev? Would
12 >>> there be any issue with moving to eudev as a default?
13 >> arches should not be picking any defaults like udev. we should be using
14 >> the same default across all linux systems. especially if the only point
15 >> is to workaround a bug in gold.
16 >>
17 >> is the fix in binutils-2.26 ? that's going into the tree in a bit ...
18 >> i'm waiting for some feedback from upstream before i push it.
19 >> -mike
20 > I can check to see if the fix is in .26, but eudev does work without
21 > issue for what it's worth. pciutils is also compiling without issue with
22 > eudev.
23 >
24 > I will try pulling 9999 and see if the issue is no longer there, if it's
25 > been resolved there then ill check into .26
26 >
27 > Without that fix, sparc64 is probably a no-go. I suppose we could always
28 > patch .25 if needed.
29 >