RE: [Bluez-devel] Alignment issue

Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12T11:00:07Z

Hi David,

> > btw what is the status of BlueZ for Fedora Core. Currently I know the
> > status of them for Debian and SuSE. Are there any extra patches that I
> > must know of?
>
> We have a patch to make various daemons build PIE and we mangle the
> defaults in some config files -- other than that nothing interesting. I
> went through it all quite recently and made sure you had the one or two
> other patches that made sense.

I am not familiar with PIE. Is it correct that it stands for "position
independent executables"?

Do you have a link to the source and binary RPM's for me?

> > How do you split the bluez-utils into different packages?
>
> We have these packages:
> bluez-bluefw-1.0-5.ppc.rpm
> bluez-hcidump-1.10-1.ppc.rpm
> bluez-libs-2.9-1.ppc.rpm
> bluez-libs-devel-2.9-1.ppc.rpm
> bluez-pin-0.23-2.ppc.rpm
> bluez-utils-2.9-1.ppc.rpm
> bluez-utils-cups-2.9-1.ppc.rpm

Looks fine so far. I hope you checked the new --enable commands in
bluez-utils-2.9, because I made many stuff optional.

The bluez-bluefw is deprecated. Please use bluez-firmware instead and
enable bcm203x program in bluez-utils if you need it (for 2.4 kernels
only). Splitting up a bluez-utils-bcm203x could be useful.

> We do split the bluez-utils init scripts up, as discussed a few weeks
> ago. I have patches outstanding for initscripts which make 'ifup bnep0'
> responsible for starting pand, to make it just like a normal interface
> -- even pppd is started that way, not by an initscript.

Actually even Debian and SuSE ship other init scripts and that is fine
for me. Do you think a --disable-initscripts option would make the life
of the package maintainers easier?

> > > Autocrap considered harmful; I'd rather let the compiler do it.
> >
> > Actually I meant to let autoconf compile some test code, then run it and
> > analyse that result.
>
> /me shudders. Autocrap considered harmful. You break cross-compilation
> if you try to do that. I'd much prefer just to write portable code.

You are right. I forgot to think about cross-compilation.

> > For now I will use memmove, but we need clarification on this. I lost my
> > Sun Ultra system, so I can't do any tests.
>
> We keep our compiler-dudes in the US mostly so they're sleeping. I'll
> poke one when they wake up.

That would be great.

Regards

Marcel

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