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Date:      Wed, 13 May 2009 22:55:53 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        "Adam K." <akranzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun Fire 280R questions.
Message-ID:  <20090513205553.GA66971@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <fbe499bd0905122308y4c3478f5uebbbff6e94cac9ca@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fbe499bd0905121206w4a6f0ffcwb22c261c6b816203@mail.gmail.com> <20090512215255.GA31766@lonesome.com> <fbe499bd0905122308y4c3478f5uebbbff6e94cac9ca@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:08:52PM -0700, Adam K. wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:06:07PM -0700, Adam K. wrote:
> > > Any known issues with the ports system on Sparc64?
> >
> > Yes, numerous ones :-)  It doesn't see as much use as i386 or amd64
> > (by a long shot), and numerous ports assume that they are running on
> > i386, both due to integer size and byte ordering.  You'll want to look
> > at portsmon.freebsd.org and www.freshports.org for more information.
> > Right now there's no current "what ports don't build on sparc64" page;
> > I need to update it.
> >
> > mcl
> 
> 
> Okay. If I do end up getting the machine, I'll see if I can do some test
> builds of some of the major ports, if that'd be useful.
> 

"Major" ports like Apache HTTPD, BIND, Perl, Sendmail, etc.
work just fine...

Marius




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