Re: status

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> For 2.1: on Intel we seem not to have many problems.  I expect m68k is
> in the same shape.  Otherwise Andreas would have sent patches :-).
> Richard just said that on Alpha there are some new problems with
> signals etc.  I guess it's kernel related.
> 
> For the other platforms I have almost no clue.  It seems to work on
> ARM though no versioning support is there.  PPC also was reported to
> work but I don't no anything for sure.  SPARC: DaveM said that he'll
> look into this once the gcc hacks are done but perhaps they are not
> yet finished.  I don't know anything about MIPS.  Dou you people not
> want to collaborate?

No time to touch too many projects, sigh ... I still haven't even
seriously tried to port 2.1.  We still have some work to do for 2.0.
For now I make the pesimistic assumption that somebody will work do
the MIPS stuff in 2.1 as soon as distributions need 2.1.

  Ralf