[parisc-linux] hppa-linux support needed for libgc5

[Matt Taggart]

Hi HP_PA LINUX hackers,

The package libgc("a conservative garbage collector for C and C++") needs some 
hppa-linux specific changes. Right now it assumes that hppa means HP-UX. The 
upstream source is,

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

and the debian package is named libgc5.

The build uses a program called if_mach to determine the arch/os and it does 
that by looking at the file "gcconfig.h".

In that file(version 5.3 of libgc) the lines 141-148, 979-1016, 1320-1325 are 
the ones we care about.  libgc5 is needed as a build/runtime dependency for 
several packages in Debian, most notably the gcc source package. I will hack 
it for now but we need to get real support added soon. Could somebody with 
more hppa experience take a look at it?

Thanks,

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Matt Taggart        Linux Development Lab
taggart@fc.hp.com   HP Linux Systems Operation