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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2018 21:18:08 -0500
From:      Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: these are the sort of things that would fry a new user
Message-ID:  <a963c2dc-ed56-c78c-e0b7-f4703550d136@blastwave.org>
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>>
>> Thank you for the input and help here. I think that perhaps ppc64 could
>> and even should be up in tier-1 given that state of IBM servers these
>> days but some effort and support is merely needed.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
> 
> 
> Just a quick note, that we're trying to get a functional pkg set:
> 
> http://pylon.nyi.freebsd.org/build.html?mastername=head-powerpc64-default&build=p485206_s340525
> 
> We'll try turning up the juice from -J4 in poudriere in a bit and see
> how much we can push this Tyan Power8.  Once we get something on
> -current, we'll move to 12-release hopefully.  Stay tuned.
> 

cool .. however I have seen odd behavior with gmake -jx for x>1 on some
risc systems before and usually with gcc bootstrap builds both stage3
and stage4 bootstraps. It may be best to just stay in -j1 world.

For the moment I am building everything from ports and just caught a
small mpfr regression :

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232802

I'll check this on ppc64.

Dennis





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