Re: 64bit startup

[Jessica Clarke]

On 25 Oct 2023, at 02:26, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

Yeah can we not spread this kind of vile rhetoric here? Regardless of
how much truth is in that, and whether it holds today, that kind of
language isn’t something we should be celebrating and encouraging
others to read. Let’s keep things more civil and on topic.

Jess

> <https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/GNU/auto-hell>.
> 
> Jeff
>