Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:08:09 -0800 From: Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> To: Brandon Bergren <bdragon@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc? Message-ID: <CADyfeQUCbiQexEcGudYmYnZ194izAPqv_VJi7FndkZ9%2BoWdogg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fd9dd6f9-3e2b-47ef-abf4-7e6b5800dc61@www.fastmail.com> References: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com> <CADyfeQXbfRwRfe=TGARM5GQaqwKkA=4jsLBcz8oCDar5azijFg@mail.gmail.com> <345b1732-8042-4b1c-b1b5-f062b0d9e6a5@www.fastmail.com> <CADyfeQUizspmw4-hUNkyYAaQwTo-dz0Ct%2BprUOxM49uNq9hjNg@mail.gmail.com> <fd9dd6f9-3e2b-47ef-abf4-7e6b5800dc61@www.fastmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:50 PM Brandon Bergren <bdragon@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, at 8:39 PM, Julio Merino wrote: > > > > Oh, that's good to know. I might have observed it in one of the ALPHAs > > given that I tried this last month. > > > > Are there any more-recent images available with the fix? I checked the > > snapshots directory but couldn't see any. And attempting to buildworld > > from 12 results in: > > -BETA2 is in the process of being built by the release engineering team > and should be out within the next 24 hours. > Excellent; thanks. > which I'm guessing this is because of the ancient gcc 4.2... so what's > > the magic to rebuild 13, if possible? > > The magic is undocumented because it's only been accomplished natively by > me and one other person, and you end up with a damaged system even when you > do accomplish it. It's *much* more straightforward to install from prebuilt > bits. > What kind of brokenness? I noticed that my local patch over stable/12 to fix https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252720 still applies to stable/13, so I'm wondering if that's what you are referring to. -- jmmv.devhelp
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