Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

On 19.09.23 20:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 20:26 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> The MR ([1]) was updated and now uses `-fno-var-tracking` for the
>> respective files only when the target architecture is ia64. This works
>> like so for example:
>>
>> ```
>> ifeq ($(ARCH),ia64)
>>           CFLAGS_bnx2x_sp.o += -fno-var-tracking
>> endif
>> ```
>>
>> Tested via a local kernel build where one case was using a wrong target
>> architecture (i386) at first to see it failing and then working after
>> changing that back to the correct target architecture (ia64).
>>
>> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/852
>
> This looks reasonable to me and I think we can have this merged as a temporary
> workaround so that we can get 6.5 and 6.6 kernels built for ia64 on the buildds.

You're welcome.

Cheers,
Frank