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Re: PATCH: Fix __WORDSIZE for ia64.
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne at mandrakesoft dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>,Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>,GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:52:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix __WORDSIZE for ia64.
- References: <20030801214714.GA8786@lucon.org> <773BE69E-C46E-11D7-8549-003065C7D858@mandrakesoft.com>
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:21:15AM +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >>When I also followed the switch for MDK 9.0/AMD64, I gathered some
> >>statistics from our main distribution (around 1300 packages). Finally,
> >
> >It doesn't sounds right since utmp/wtmp on AMD64 has the same format
> >as ia32.
>
> They has the same format since glibc CVS 2002/10/15.
Why didn't we also do it for ia64 :-(? They are very much the same in
this regard.
>
> >>only 50 out of 85 candidates actually had to be fixed or rebuilt. Hmm,
> >>looking where I put the list for interested people.
> >
> >Send me the list.
>
> <ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake/9.0/
> x86_64/CHANGES.txt>
>
> - Because of the new struct utmp layout, the following packages had
> to be fixed and/or rebuilt: adjtimex, aterm, dietlibc, dump,
> emacs, fileutils, findutils, finger, getty_ps, gkrellm,
> gnome-libs, gpm, hylafax, kdeadmin, kdebase, kdenetwork,
> kdevelop, krb5, libzvt, linuxconf, man-pages, mgetty, mingetty,
> mod_auth_external, ncpfs, ntp, openssh, pam, procps, proftpd,
> psacct, pwdb, rwho, rxvt, samba, screen, shadow-utils, sh-utils,
> sysklogd, SysVinit, talk, tcsh, utempter, util-linux, xterm, zsh,
> XFree86.
>
This doesn't mean much. I don't believe all of them access utmp/wtmp
directly. I will provide old versioned interface so that those who
access utmp/wtmp via libc should work fine.
H.J.