Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:59:43 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com> Cc: Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, sparc64@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonS3kEdThvfXh81ZZFzgUVsp%2B665KX_vvPW-KW6b2jxig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> References: <563A5893.1030607@freebsd.org> <2AAC0EF3-528B-476F-BA9C-CDC3004465D0@bsdimp.com> <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de> <563F8385.3090603@freebsd.org> <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com>
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On 9 November 2015 at 20:22, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com> wrote: > > Just as a further note, I had experimented in January of this year with > making a binary pkg mirror for sun4u using my (comparatively sad) Ultra > 60 and a cross-build system. Installation was fairly straightforward > but I was having issues bringing up Clang and was having many issues > trying to build "modern" packages using GCC 4.2.1. > > See my blog for some insight: http://blog.foxkit.us/search/label/sparc Oh wow, cool, you've been busy! That's great. > > Unfortunately, truth be told, I gave up after the Freenode IRC channel > gave me a whole heap of abuse and name-calling for trying to ask for any > support with the sparc64 port. I couldn't find the documentation I > needed to keep going and nobody wanted to help. If there are others > working on this and I am not alone after all, I will gladly pull the > Ultra 60 back on to my desk and do what I can to help out. GCC 4.8 or > 4.9 would be a huge, huge, huge improvement in particular. Ugh, IRC can be jerks. Grab me on efnet (adrian) and i'll direct you into a slightly less posionous channel. :)
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