Who looks after Gentoo/Alpha & other issues...

[_markd]

Gentoo for Alpha seems to be in a quite miserable state at the moment...

1. On http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ there is no release coordinator for Gentoo/Alpha.
2. The last release for alpha is 1.4-rc1 (possibly due to 1.)
3. The 2004.0 livecds lack hardware support.

Some other issues are:

Would someone be so kind and mention in the preparing disks section of the handbook, that aboot can only read ext2 partitions (I'm not satisfied with raw boot). I was *VERY* amused changing the partition setup to include a ext2 disk and recompiling the whole system.

Has anybody successfully compiled glibc with NPTL support ? I tried all compinations of gcc 3.3.2, 3.3.3, binutils 2.14.0.90.6, *.7, *.8, glibc-2.3.2, 2.3.3_*, 2.3.4_* but none worked. GCC 3.4 did also not work. With gcc-3.4 and glibc-2.3.4 I got syntax errors (can't remember the exact error now) and with glibc 2.3.3 I got the following:

[Kloeri]

Hi Markd and thanks for your interest in Gentoo/Alpha

Gentoo/Alpha is currently maintained by 5 developers who are all quite busy doing other stuff as well. That said we're trying to get back on the track.

Personally I've been spending a lot of time on keywording packages - both marking packages stable as well as adding new packages to testing on alpha.

Regarding a new release - Jay Maynard has been working on rolling out a new release and I'm toying with the idea of helping him do just that. The old releases has some problems that I'd love to see fixed

Btw, newer versions of glibc currently causes a few headaches - the required fixes needs a few patches as well as 2.6 headers which comes with it's own set of problems. The most important problem (afaik) being very broken qlogic isp1020 support in all 2.6 kernels.

Right now I suggest staying away from nptl and newer glibc versions.

[_markd]

I wish you all the best for the new release
Gonna stay away from NPTL and stick with 'normal' glibc-2.3.3 and kernel 2.6.7 which work fine so far. I wanted to get NPTL working now that the machine is not in use. Later it won't be fun if the machine is compiling glibc while under load (this is going to be a cvs server) or even worse, if it successfully compiles it but installs faulty (had that situation already with some unresolved symbols in my fresh glibc install which rendered the damn box useless and I had to reinstall from stage1).
Well, I'm going to be patient - got enough exams atm anyway.

cheers
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