Re: 64bit startup

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 6:21 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Some update on the 64bit port:
>
> - The debian-ports archive now has enough packages to bootstrap a
> chroot.
> - A 64bit debian buildd is getting set up, not much work is left there.
> - The hurd-amd64 wanna-build infrastructure is to be set up in the
> coming days.

Congrats

> *but*
>
> Building packages is not very stable. I have been trying to build
> gcc-13 for a couple of weeks, without success so far. There are various
> failures, most often odd errors in the libtool script, which are a sign
> that the system itself is not behaving correctly. A way to reproduce
> the issue is to just repeatedly build a package that is using libtool,
> sooner or later that will fail very oddly.

lol... <https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/GCC> and
<https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/GNU/auto-hell>.

Jeff