Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:51:41 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: sprice@hiwaay.net Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, steve@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha ports collection? Message-ID: <19981224145141C.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:44:45 -0600 (CST)" <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812231233010.6636-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> References: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812231233010.6636-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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sprice> Anyone out there working on a ports collection for FreeBSD-Alpha?
sprice> If not, I'm going to start one. If so, how can I help? I just
sprice> hit Jordan up with this question and he said asking here would
sprice> be a much better place. My current Alpha hardware is pretty lame
sprice> (Multia). It will get me started, but I'm definitely going to
sprice> be looking for a little better hardware. Maybe others could donate
sprice> time on their boxes to further the cause? Of course, a bunch of
sprice> new hardware donated to FreeBSD, Inc. would be gladly accepted
sprice> too. :-)
I tried to build packages on alpha. Here is the result
(after fpsetmask impremented).
The figures represent the number of packages included in the directory.
The numbers include the useless packages, for example, netscape
for FreeBSD/i386.
1085 All
1053 Latest
13 archivers
6 astro
8 audio
11 benchmarks
5 biology
7 cad
19 chinese
13 comms
12 converters
8 databases
10 deskutils
64 devel
46 editors
4 elisp
21 emulators
134 games
4 german
70 graphics
116 japanese
23 korean
39 lang
45 mail
21 math
6 mbone
65 misc
121 net
20 news
6 offix
11 perl5
3 pilot
6 plan9
92 print
6 python
10 russian
25 security
5 shells
35 sysutils
2 tcl75
1 tcl76
4 tcl80
2 tcl81
37 textproc
7 tk41
6 tk42
32 tk80
2 tk81
7 vietnamese
46 www
56 x11
11 x11-clocks
5 x11-fm
21 x11-fonts
19 x11-toolkits
20 x11-wm
I have not checked the reason of failure for all, but
common reasons are:
- dependency on i386 binary (qt etc.)
- time_t conflicts (long vs int)
- require machine/soundcard.h (most of auido ports)
- tcl cannot be compiled without fpsetmask (many depedent ports)
(I implemeted it, but to make it work correctly, we need to set compile option)
I think I can help to work on ports for alpha, My machine is EB166 (666MHz)
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