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Re: PATCH: Fix __WORDSIZE for ia64.


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.


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