Re: ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

Helmut Grohne
2020-03-26T12:24:39Z

Hi Alexey,

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:51:44AM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> I guess almost all of the packages you mentioned already have
> needed improvements for ARC.

I didn't mean to imply that anything was missing. I just mentioned those
that usually need work without having checked any.

> 2. libgpg-error has ARC support since v1.33, see:
> http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgpg-error.git;a=commit;h=48c8f8ddfc80

This is only the native-support. For rebootstrap, we also need cross
build support, i.e. recording the generated lock-obj header (once glibc
is done).

> And only for "libatomic-ops" & "guile" nothing has been done yet so if there's something
> that really needs to be done please let us know.

I suggest that you focus on libatomic-ops then. And on glibc of course.
I guess that the other issues are easily solvable when they arise.

Helmut