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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:42:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: User account for port testing?
Message-ID:  <200608150242.k7F2gviQ013135@sleipnir.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060814175158.GA34263@xor.obsecurity.org>

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> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:48:49AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Quincey Koziol wrote this message on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:14 -0500:
> > >     I'm the maintainer for the 'science/hdf5' port and it's been failing on
> > > the SPARC ports testing machine for a while.  I'd like to try to fix the
> > > problem, but I don't have access to a SPARC machine running FreeBSD... :-(
> > > Can anyone give me a user account on a machine running 6-STABLE so I can log
> > > in and try to find a fix?
> > >     Please reply directly to me, I'm not subscribed to this list.
> > 
> > You can do your own build testing on sparc64 by setting up a sparc64
> > build environment...  This involves a full FreeBSD check-out, and
> > doing:
> > make toolchain TARGET_ARCH=sparc64
> > make buildenv
> > 
> > After the second command, you will be dropped into a shell that has
> > the path set for building sparc64 binaries...  you can then cd to
> > your distribution, and make it..  I'm not sure how this will interact
> > w/ the ports system, so you may have to bypass the ports system and go
> > directly to to hdf5's src dir..
> 
> This is unlikely to be widely useful for ports, unfortunately.

    Yes, the configure scripts aren't going to be able to execute their
little test programs...

    Quincey



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