From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18135 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2012 19:48:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 18123 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jul 2012 19:48:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gh0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-gh0-f169.google.com) (209.85.160.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:48:27 +0000 Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so6688379ghr.0 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.207.104 with SMTP id lv8mr9698109igc.41.1341344906225; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.166.161 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FF12517.1060601@archlinux.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Add ppca2 to ports powerpc/dl-procinfo From: "Ryan S. Arnold" To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: libc-ports@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> > sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c >> > sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.h >> >> I hadn't realised there were files in ports that would override >> corresponding files in libc when the repositories are merged (that is, if >> a configuration that previously didn't use ports now has the ports >> repository visible). It looks like it will be necessary to add ppca2 >> support to the ports version to avoid any possible regressions - Ryan, >> does this (untested) patch look OK for the ports subdirectory immediately >> after the repository merge goes on master? (After the merge the powerpc >> maintainers should probably move at least the CPU support bits for powerpc >> in ports, if not the nofpu bits as well, directly into the libc sysdeps >> structure, but that's certainly a matter for the maintainers.) > > I have applied this patch > to hopefully > reduce the risk of regressions for anyone newly getting powerpc ports > files where they didn't before. Please do fix things up if this patch has > in fact caused any problems of its own.... Thanks Joseph. We'll fix any problems that arise. Ryan