Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Re: [gccsdk] Various GNU tools - RISC OS system freeze (completelock-up)


Another package Fileutils (4.1-1) works on the whole as expected, but "ls"
is problematic, it causes a stack trace.

I can't even find that on the autobuilder!

I think some of these (perhaps the ones with capital letters in the names - eg DiffUtils rather than diffutils) are inherited from the RiscPkg archive which is 10-15 years old and originally built for ARMv5. Graham had his own build system that wasn't part of the autobuilder - I think popular packages have a parallel project in the autobuilder but not all of them do. 

It seems Graham's sources are still available: http://source.riscpkg.org/

but whether there's anything of worth there compared with freshly porting the current versions is another question.

Alan, I thought your recent PackMan changes were supposed to filter incompatible packages? I'm surprised these ones are making it through.

Theo

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