glibc-2-2-branch and ppc64

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Fri Sep 6 11:09:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:04:48PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Ulrich,
>     Looking at glibc-2-2-branch with the web-cvs I see
> a new sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32 directory with empty elf
> and fpu subdirs in it. I also see that libgcc-compat.S has
> been moved into the Attic. However unlike libgcc-compat.c,
> the libgcc-compat.S in the Attic shows no changelog entry
> for being moved and/or replaced. My guess is someone 
> accidentally applied one of Steve Munroe's patches, that 
> created the powerpc32 directory and moved files, to
> glibc-2-2-branch. It is puzzling that it moved libgcc-compat.S
> into the Attic instead of powerpc32 though. I didn't look
> that carefully at all the patches Steve proposed for
> the transition so I don't know which one could have done
> this.

That's not a problem; you're just seeing how CVS records changes
between a branch and the trunk.  Try checking it out instead of relying
on cvsweb.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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