Re: [wmii] Re: wmii 2.2 packages in Debian ready for an upgrade?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:24:44PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:03:15PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> > > although the failed buildd runs for 9base are a problem
> >
> > Indeed. Anyone clue about what caused the FTBFS? I didn't look already
> > into it..
> >
> > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=9base
>
> Those platforms who fail, are not (yet) supported or should be
> treated as 386, arm, power, sun4 or x86_64 respectively.
>
> Each platform needs an equivalent function in a file called:
>
> 9base/lib9/getcallerpc-{hppa,s390,ia64}.c which returns a proper
> value for following operation on 386 platform:
>
> #include <lib9.h>
>
> ulong
> getcallerpc(void *x)
> {
> return (((ulong*)(x))[-1]);
> }
>
> Which means returning the calling program counter as ulong.
> That is afaik the only platform dependend code which is
> necessary for 9base/lib9/qlock.c of 9base.

Nah, I uncommented the lock-ing stuff in qlock.c, because no
program in 9base does needs locking, because no program is threaded.

I'll create a snap of 9base in a minute and please let me know,
if 9base compiles fine on those platforms, if you got access to any.

http://wmii.de/snaps/9base-20060123.tar.gz

Regards,

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