[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Regarding patch allowing you to compile systemd on ia64

[Émeric MASCHINO]

Hi,

The user with the ia64 machine can testify that systemd 208 compiled
successfully using linux-headers 3.9 ;-)

Thanks,

     Émeric


2013/12/31 Pacho Ramos <pacho at gentoo.org>:
> El mar, 31-12-2013 a las 19:15 +0100, Aurelien Jarno escribió:
>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 06:50:45PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>> > El mar, 31-12-2013 a las 18:03 +0100, Aurelien Jarno escribió:
>> > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:41:06AM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>> > > > Hello
>> > > >
>> > > > We are having problems on Gentoo to compile systemd on ia64:
>> > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480218
>> > > >
>> > > > That is caused by an old bug in glibc:
>> > > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=762
>> > >
>> > > This bug is still reproducible on an up to date ia64 Debian system.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Then, how are you able to create a package for 204 version for example:
>> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/ia64/systemd/filelist
>> >
>> > or, am I misunderstanding the information from packages.debian.org?
>>
>> I am talking about the bug from glibc, not the Gentoo one.
>>
>> > > > We have reviewed your patches for systemd but they don't look to handle
>> > > > this issue. Then, we think the bug is fixed by you using eglibc instead
>> > > > of glibc, but I cannot find the change fixing the mentioned glibc bug
>> > > > report. Do you know anything about this issue and how was it solved for
>> > > > Debian?
>> > >
>> > > The main difference between your build error message and the Debian
>> > > headers is that there is no #include <linux/ptrace.h> in
>> > > <linux/audit.h>. I guess your kernel headers are not up to date, and
>> > > that your are missing commit c0a3a20b6c4b5229ef5d26fd9b1c4b1957632aa7.
>> > >
>> > > Aurelien
>> > >
>> >
>> > We still have the headers from 3.9, but, from your comment, even bumping
>> > to latest sources will keep failing, right? :(
>>
>> No. The bug is still there if you try to include both <signal.h> and
>> <asm/fpu.h>. That said if you update your kernel headers, <linux/audit.h>
>> won't pull <asm/fpu.h> anymore, and systemd will become buildable.
>>
>> Aurelien
>>
>
> OK, will ask the user with the ia64 machine :)
>
> Thanks!
>
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