Re: Add ppca2 to ports powerpc/dl-procinfo

["Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Allan McRae wrote:
>>
>> > sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c
>> > sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.h
>>
>> I hadn't realised there were files in ports that would override
>> corresponding files in libc when the repositories are merged (that is, if
>> a configuration that previously didn't use ports now has the ports
>> repository visible).  It looks like it will be necessary to add ppca2
>> support to the ports version to avoid any possible regressions - Ryan,
>> does this (untested) patch look OK for the ports subdirectory immediately
>> after the repository merge goes on master?  (After the merge the powerpc
>> maintainers should probably move at least the CPU support bits for powerpc
>> in ports, if not the nofpu bits as well, directly into the libc sysdeps
>> structure, but that's certainly a matter for the maintainers.)
>
> I have applied this patch
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-07/msg00010.html> to hopefully
> reduce the risk of regressions for anyone newly getting powerpc ports
> files where they didn't before.  Please do fix things up if this patch has
> in fact caused any problems of its own....

Thanks Joseph.

We'll fix any problems that arise.

Ryan