Re: Sparc64 Ports Problems

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

satadru pramanik <satadru@umich.edu> wrote:

> I think that I could try to rebuild some of the ports,

I realize that recompiling takes the least skill and effort, but I
don't think it's going to help either.  The programs need to be
debugged.  This won't happen on its own.  By and large this also
won't happen if you report the problem to the maintainer.  "I don't
have that platform", he says and shrugs.  If something doesn't work,
you need to sit down and fix it yourself.

> I did notice that there were some ports that I flat our could not
> build, despite packages for sparc64 already existing for the port?

The -stable branch has a fix that makes devel/gmp build on sparc64.
This is a dependency for a number of ports, in particular python,
which in turn is a dependency for lots more.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de