[Ltrace-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Move mipsel to mips

[Sedat Dilek]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Oliver Spornitz <ospornit at rz-online.de> wrote:
>>>> I applied the three patches to the branch ospornit/move_mipsel on top
>>>> of the current master.
>>>
>>> Cherry-picking the 3 patches to ltrace-0.7 branch worked nicely!
>>> Petr, can you apply (cherry-pick) them after merging into master?
>>
>> This is a cleanup that shouldn't have any visible effect for users.
>> I don't consider it appropriate for 0.7.x.
>>
>
> The first thing I did not understand when looking at the Freetz ltrace
> package was WTF-arch=mips or =mipsel.
> So there was this symlink from mipsel->mips in the source-code.
> If you look at the kernel-archives you see arch=mips.
> That's why I changed in my local Freetz GIT repo to:
>
>                 ARCH="$(KERNEL_ARCH)" \
>
> So this stuff might be a "cleanup" in your eyes, but for me this is to
> correct what $ARCH really should be for ltrace in the MIPS world.
>
> As the 3 patches can be easily cherry-picked, there is nothing
> speaking against  to apply them.
>
> If your philosphy/policy is to only include real BUGFIXES into a
> ltrace-x.y release, please document this!
>
> Furthermore, I highly appreciate that you put a NOTE in the
> commit-changelog of patches taken from ltrace-upstream to any BUGFIX
> release. This is common usage for example stable Linux-kernels. So
> people can follow what's happening.
>
> EXAMPLE from [1]:
>
> "commit 1de63d60cd5b0d33a812efa455d5933bf1564a51 upstream."
>
> BTW, when are you planning a v0.8.0 release?
>
> With latest ltrace-upstream GIT I get this:
>
> configure: updating cache
> /home/wearefam/src/freetz/freetz-git/source/target-mipsel_uClibc-0.9.32.1/config.cache
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'
>
> ERROR: Build failed.
> make: *** [source/target-mipsel_uClibc-0.9.32.1/ltrace-0.7.90+gitbc0de43/.configured]
> Error 1
>
> I must check if this is a local problem or comes from ltrace.
>

Damn, it was a local problem:

$ rm -f ./source/target-mipsel_uClibc-0.9.32.1/config.cache

- Sedat -


> - Sedat -
>
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commitdiff;h=a7a878d102299bec638233e6a8ab679ce89a1c24
>
>> Thanks,
>> PM