[DRE-maint] Bug#474724: RC bug #474724

[Antonio Terceiro]

Gunnar Wolf escreveu isso aí:
> Paul van Tilburg dijo [Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:03:24AM +0200]:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I am at a conference this week and also away for the weekend.
> > Could someone have a look at RC bug #474724 if you have the time?
> 
> Umh... Looks quite simple to solve - We would only have to add the
> proper definition in posh.h before line 514:
> 
> #if !defined POSH_CPU_STRING
> #  error POSH cannot determine target CPU
> #  define POSH_CPU_STRING "Unknown" /* this is here for Doxygen's benefit */
> #endif
> 
> POSH_CPU_STRING is defined in the immediate preceding lines (421
> onwards), in this fashion:
> 
> #if defined ARM || defined __arm__ || defined _ARM
> #  define POSH_CPU_STRONGARM 1
> #  define POSH_CPU_STRING "ARM"
> #endif
> 
> So we would only have to get (and I'm sorry, I'm completely lost in
> this area) the proper CPU string for s390 and add it here. Blindly
> asking Google makes me believe the proper string for the submitter's
> environment (64-bit s390) is z900.

Besides #define'ing the proper symbols, there are issues like endianess
and other stuff that need to be properly defined for such architecture,
somewhere in posh.h, and it needs to be tested on an actual s390
machine.

I already tried hercules to emulate s390, but it's so slow that makes it
impractical (really). There is a s390 mainframe in my university's
datacenter, and I'm working together with its administrator to install
etch on it.  We had no success yet, and these days I was on a trip. I
intend to try again on Monday morning.

If some DD with instant access to a s390 machine [1] could help, it
would be nice.

[1] http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=raptor

I'm copying the debian-s390 list, in the case some of the porters want
and/or can help.

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