From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:28:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mipsfw.mips-uk.com ([194.74.144.146]:42524 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133422AbWBUP16 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:27:58 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1LFXDoc015432; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:33:14 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k1LFXALD015429; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:33:10 GMT Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:33:10 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Jim Gifford , Linux MIPS List Subject: Re: GLIBC moved mips to Ports Message-ID: <20060221153310.GA28396@linux-mips.org> References: <43FA8F04.3040606@jg555.com> <20060221144211.GA19378@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060221144211.GA19378@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10601 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:42:11AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Sigh. Jim, you are slightly misinterpreting this. > > MIPS has _never_ been a high priority of the glibc maintainers. What > happened here is that they admitted it - and moved it to a separate > repository so that (A) they don't need to deal with it, and (B) people > who are interested can deal with it. It's unfortunate, but realistic. > > The ports repository is going to continue to be supported and we're > going to keep it working. We just have to do the legwork. I'll go > over the MIPS build fixes this week sometime. Great. None of my patches in the past years has even received any sort of feedback. Maybe time to to look through them again ... Leave waiting for 386 and gang to move to glibc ports as well. Ralf