[ports-ia64@pointyhat.freebsd.org: xorg-fonts-type1-6.7.0 failed on ia64 6]

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Nov 24 00:05:15 GMT 2004


On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:58:54PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:34:07PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > 
> > > I built xorg just yesterday on my -current ia64. No problems.
> > > Can you check if the port was built on pluto1 or pluto2?
> > 
> > xorg-clients was built on pluto2.
> 
> Ok, thanks.
> 
> > > pluto1 runs 5.3-stable, whereas pluto2 runs 6-current. I think
> > > a 6-current chroot on a 5.3-stable machine is not a good idea
> > > and a 5.3-stable chroot on a 6-current machine is questionable.
> > 
> > Unless there are ia64-specific incompatibilities or bugs, going both
> > ways should be fine at the moment, and in particular it shouldn't
> > matter whether the package was compiled under a 6.x kernel or a 5.x
> > kernel as long as the userland is the same.
> 
> There's nothing ia64 specific, but there are various generic changes
> that possibly affect ports. Enough to make me feel uncomfortable to
> mix and match and why I have one on -stable and the other on -current.

Unfortunately, if you're correct that makes both 5.x and 6.x package
builds endangered.

> > There's the usual instability on pluto* though, so perhaps the package
> > was affected by some form of data corruption during the build.
> 
> Yes, possible. I'm building xorg on pluto2 as we speak. It's
> probably a fluke however...

Kris
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