Re: 64bit startup

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 9:33 PM Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

My apologies for offending your delicate sensibilities.

Jeff