Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:55:21 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: cvsup broken on amd64? Message-ID: <20110909095521.GX17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20110909113046.Horde.MHKEMKQd9PdOadzGA0vRXXA@avocado.salatschuessel.net> References: <20110909113046.Horde.MHKEMKQd9PdOadzGA0vRXXA@avocado.salatschuessel.net>
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--dGpy7zMmU3HloscK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:30:46AM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >=20 > Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > >On 9 September 2011 06:33, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> wrote: > >>I got used to it in the past 12 years? But this is not realy the questi= on. > >>If it is "BROKEN" it should be marked as BROKEN or there should be a > >>statement that it will not work with FreeBSD 9 on at least amd64 or we > >>will have other users complaining about the same at least when > >>9.0 RELEASE is out - right? > > > >The cvsup port is normally used now only for cvsupd, for which there > >is no csupd analog. As far as I know, and perhaps mux (CC'd) could > >confirm every feature present in cvsup is present in csup-- and it's a > >fair amount faster too. >=20 > Ok, but this again is not the point of my email ;) > This is not about "just me". I know how to help me in that case. I want > to prevent users facing the same problem and writing mails like my initial > mail. > I'm quiet sure that there are numerous users out there still using cvsup > as client so they will start like me with cvsup on ther new instaled syst= em. > It would be better if they just would not be able to install cvsup if it > will not run and we don't want it to run. > I was also curious if it is only me where it fails on amd64 or if it is > because it was compiled on an Atom 330 with some amd64 flags determined by > the system which does not fit the Atom 330 (gcc 4.2 is older than the CPU > design). > With other words: If the support for cvsup on amd64 is dropped, it has > to be marked as BROKEN/IGNORE/whatever. Otherwise it need to get fixed for > 9.0? For start, you should provide the information what exactly is the instruction that caused the fault. Show the disassembly from gdb for the function that caused the fault. --dGpy7zMmU3HloscK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk5p4ogACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4g4BgCfVOxElwAeHLlCDjKiuF6rgRtt ZEoAn0xNaGxDtOESb1/Xsd7UkBSr6SwD =Qckp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dGpy7zMmU3HloscK--
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