From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4980RK15926 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 01:00:27 -0700 Received: from mail.sonytel.be (mail.sonytel.be [193.74.243.200]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4980DF15914; Wed, 9 May 2001 01:00:13 -0700 Received: from ginger.sonytel.be (ginger.sonytel.be [10.34.16.6]) by mail.sonytel.be (8.9.0/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA11116; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from tea@localhost) by ginger.sonytel.be (8.9.0/8.8.6) id JAA08397; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:59:55 +0200 From: Tom Appermont To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Florian Lohoff , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? Message-ID: <20010509095955.A8392@sonycom.com> References: <20010505144708.A12575@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010507163210.B2381@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010508202518.A13476@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010508214313.A12528@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010508214313.A12528@bacchus.dhis.org>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:43:13PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:43:13PM -0300, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:25:18PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > > compatibility. I read the whole thread on linux-mips but i didnt get the point > > > > why this has to happen - If we are repairing a real bug for it. > > > > > > > > Could someone please elaborate on whats going on as i feel i missed ~200 mails > > > > discussion and i dont want to purge the whole debian archive until i know > > > > what for we actually drop the compatibility. > > > > > > We don't. > > > > Could you explain a bit more - I'd like to understand the whole issue. > > The whole point was to switch from our IRIX ELF flavoured binaries to > standard ABI ELF. These two variants are close but not identical which > for example made modutils missbehave. What is the current status on this? The patches for the tools are already integrated in their cvs trees (right?). But I don't think everybody was happy with this in the end, aspecially the people wearing debian hats. Is anybody working on a solution, or are we waiting for the debian people to rebuild all the packages? Tom