Wishfull Thinking (SPARC)

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:29:48AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:55 -0600, David.Estacio at sycoleman.com wrote:
> 
> > I have read the schedule posted on the Fedora Project page and it
> > indicates that there may be a SPARC architecture version of Fedora
> > coming down the pipe.  Any news on this?
> 
> Well, so far, so good. The major errors so far are:
> 
> PIE support does not work on sparc at the moment. This means that every
> Fedora package with PIE embedded into it has to be conditionalized for
> sparc.

Yeah, on my todo list.

> Building NPTL for sparcv9 requires glibc-kernheaders to be 2.6, not 2.4.
> This also requires patching of things like util-linux and rhpl.

Not true.  It can use the same glibc-kernheaders as all other Fedora/RHEL3
arches.  The thing is just that asm-sparc*/unistd.h needs to be updated
with the newly added syscalls, nothing else.

	Jakub