Subject: Please merge in multi-architecture patches

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 96 15:00 PDT

Dear Developers,

Leland Lucius says that few of you have acknowledged his bug reports with
multi-architecture patches. Please merge in these patches and upload new
packages if you have not done so. We are about to start compiling for the
DEC ALPHA, and it's going to be very difficult for us without the multi
architecture support that Leland has so graciously provided.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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From: Mr Stuart Lamble <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:59:35 +1000 (EST)

> architecture support that Leland has so graciously provided.

Be prepared, then, for code to break - even with the multi-architecture
patches, a lot of code makes assumptions about the sizes of pointers and
integers. To paraphrase Linus, the Alpha is significantly more different
to the 80[345]86 than the m68k is - a case in point is Kerberos, which
compiles fine on 32-bit systems, but needs a lot of work to compile on
the Alpha (64 bit.)

Just something I thought should be pointed out - if there are no such
problems, I'll be extremely surprised. (I've done a fair amount of compiling
on an alpha system here at Monash, and have seen more than a few programs
have trouble. Mind you, compiling with Digital's cc rather than gcc seemed
to fix some of the errors...)

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I'm on a low-fat, high stress diet: coffee and fingernails.

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:31:30 -0500 (CDT)

> architecture support that Leland has so graciously provided.

I have saved all of Leland patches for my packages, but I probably
can't do anything with them for at least two weeks.

David
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