Re: [Ganglia-developers] It's time to release 3.1...

[Carlo M. A. B. <ca...@sa...>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:01:15AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2008 08:05:22 am Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> 
> > PS. if you have access to s390x would be nice to run a build there to see
> > if we got lucky with that platform as well,
> 
> I'd have to jump through some hoops to get running on s390x, don't have 
> anything standing by, immediately ready. There's always the hercules s390{,x} 
> emulator... :) (which actually works pretty well for basic s390/x testing, 
> albeit very slowly).

good idea, will try that as soon as I get the RHEL 5.2 s390x install ISO.
I had to admit I was gladly surprised to find out you can get it for
evaluation through a simple web based process and that it included access
to RHN, so I could quickly check the contents of the RPMs and the expected
layout of the files.

it would seem from what I saw that the heuristic used should be working as
well in s390x.

> > and who knows maybe also with 
> > ia64 and mips64 eventhough I don't think there is biarch support from any
> > distribution for those too.
> 
> I've got ia64 immediately available, no mips64 though. ia64 is 64-bit only, 
> except for the 32-bit x86 emulation stuff that it can do, but that's a mutant 
> beast that you need not worry about... So yeah, ia64 simply uses /usr/lib, no 
> lib64 usage.

got access to a SuSE ia64 system, and I am afraid confirmed that the
heuristic broke there, as it is 64-bit only and there is no biarch compatible
link that connects lib64 with lib (as done by example in Debian x86_64)

sadly not much of a surprise, and part of the reason why I was rather inclined
to instead remove it and rely in the user providing the correct "libdir"
instead once fixed.

guess that means it is probably broken as well in alpha (does anyone still
has one of those?)

and probably will work in mips64 and hppa64 as far as they are both using
lib64 for 64bit libraries and have by default lib with 32bit libraries or are
pure 64bit but have a symbolic link that maps lib to lib64 for compatibility
like Debian x86_64 does.

Carlo