I’ve now cleaned up the patch for building the 64 bit amd64 glibc. It should be fine and work well, but since it haven’t built yet, I don’t know that for sure. Thanks to Snow-Man for testing the package for me, and also big thanks to maswan for helping me out when my AMD64 box is 500 kms away and powered off on a desk. He also let me have root to test the packages and didn’t go mad when I had to break out of the chroot to install a package. Once the libc is properly fixed, a lot of the packages which were uninstallable in sid should now be fine. The next target is gcc, since the biarch gcc on alioth is getting a little old. Yay AMD64.

The genericwiki module in pybloxsom sucks. It doesn’t have bulleted lists, for instance, and adding them is not something which I feel like doing at this time of the day. I should probably just sit down and write my own wikiparser, probably based off the CVSWiki parser, which I find mostly sane (not so surprising, since it’s made by my friend Sesse, who mostly makes sane or at least non-insane software. Apart from stuff like adding an IRC frontend to my mailing list manager and such, that is.).

It’d be nice to have smileys replaced with some image tags and such also. Another day, I guess.

Tor Henning fixed up iota; the problem was related to some people not having any mail addresses. This caused InnovisionBoard to freak out, it seems. So, removed that issue, at least, even though it’s not I who have done it.

this is kinda cool, if you take a look at my blog, you’ll see the todo list at the right side. This is just hacked together from the booklist (which I also fixed so that I can have different book lists in different categories). I think I like pyblosxom. As soon as the code is cleaned up a little bit, I’ll post it.

#parser textile I’m considering the following list of benchmarks:

• price guide update
• lame/oggenc
• mencoder/transcode
• apachebench
• spamassassin, sa-learn
• Mersenne primes

Those should make the system churn a bit, and also be typical of some things you’ll actually do with a system, in production. Will be fun.

When out biking today, I thought of a few programs which would be immensely useful (and not so much):

Of course, this list is missing at least five items, because I don’t have the first item. And, as an added bonus, I’ve begun thinking in English instead of Norwegian for the last day or so. Annoying, but I guess it’ll pass once I’m back at the university or something.

The problem with the 32bit glibc on 64bit AMD64 can be worked around fairly easily. The problem seems somehow connected to the optimized libraries placed in /lib/tls. The workaround is to just move /lib/tls out of the way, and hey presto: glibc works again. Of course, this is just a workaround, but it’ll do for now. I’ll give the lib64c6 some attention and upload it to Alioth once Alioth is back on line.

I have my $HOME in CVS, as joeyh has described on anoncvs-over-cvs and cvshomedir. I also check it out onto the web. Quite nice and convenient. Now I’ve also gotten the weblogging software set up; quite ok once Oskuro told me about the fact that the version in unstable is old and broken, and that there is a newer version in experimental.

I think I might want some better way of autolinking stuff I’m writing, but so far, I’m sticking with the plain frontend.

You just love it when you have a spare system that you might be able to use to build glibc and it just dies? Nice MP2600+, dual CPU and everything. splat. Dead. No reaction from ping, nothing. It sucks.