[Pkg-db-devel] Re: (MIPS|amd64)/gcc-assembly mutexes [#11575]

[Thiemo Seufer]

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Clint Adams wrote:
> > > > > > > This is a patch for fast mutexes on MIPS & amd64 by Kurt Roeckx against
> > > > > 
> > > > > Actually, the MIPS portion appears to have a problem.  I'll let you know
> > > > > when we work this out.
> > > > 
> > > > I suggest you talk Thiemo Seufer
> > > > <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> about it.  He already knew
> > > > about the patch and changed it for mips.  I've CC'd him.
> > > 
> > > Thiemo, can you comment on the assembler failure at
> > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=db4.3&ver=4.3.21-6&arch=mips&stamp=1102304464&file=log&as=raw
> > > ?
> > 
> > I have a better patch for db4.1 ff, and will post it after I managed
> > to get the db4.1 testsuite to do a test run with it. (Currently it
> > hangs in the first few tests, I guess caused by tcl version problems.)
> 
> The appended patch (for db4.1) is derived from Kurt's one. The handling
> of --enable-pthreadsmutexes follows now the usual scheme (but is still
> disabled by default).
[snip]
> diff -urpN db4.1-4.1.25/debian/rules db4.1-4.1.25.changed/debian/rules
> --- db4.1-4.1.25/debian/rules	2004-12-07 09:52:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ db4.1-4.1.25.changed/debian/rules	2004-11-28 06:46:31.000000000 +0100
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ CONFIGURE_SWITCHES =    --prefix=/usr \
>  			--enable-cxx \
>  			--enable-compat185 \
>  			--enable-rpc \
> +			--enable-pthreadsmutexes \

... which means this change in debian/rules is wrong and should be
left out. Sorry for the confusion.


Thiemo