Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:54:30 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox3 build fails on alpha Message-ID: <20080801175430.GA2860@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200808011653.QAA17051@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <20080801145822.GC1356@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200808011653.QAA17051@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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Quoting Dieter, who wrote on Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:53:25AM +0100 .. > > Thing is, ports have not been built on -alpha for > > ages now. There is not even a working Alpha machine anymore in the > > FreeBSD.org cluster for ports folks to test on if they were inclined to do > > so. ports have always been tricky on alpha, given the limited # of people > > running FreeBSD on Alpha. > > I've been running NetBSD/Alpha for many years, and beaten a lot of software > into submission on it. I don't recall a single problem that wasn't ILP32 > vs LP64. FreeBSD runs on AMD64, AMD64 is LP64, so what is the big problem > getting apps to run on Alpha once they run on AMD64? Yes, I know that People willing to spend the time, do the work, test the work etc etc. > hostility from the firefox people. > > Firefox in the original Greek means "segmentation fault". ;-) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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