Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:40:11 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: sprice@hiwaay.net Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha ports collection? Message-ID: <19981225174011S.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:43:33 -0600 (CST)" <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812241328460.30429-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> References: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812241328460.30429-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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sprice> # I have not checked the reason of failure for all, but sprice> # common reasons are: sprice> # sprice> # - dependency on i386 binary (qt etc.) sprice> # - time_t conflicts (long vs int) sprice> # - require machine/soundcard.h (most of auido ports) sprice> # sprice> # - tcl cannot be compiled without fpsetmask (many depedent ports) sprice> # (I implemeted it, but to make it work correctly, we need to set compile option) sprice> sprice> Wow, this is good stuff. Are you using the traditional sprice> build technique or some variant of Satoshi's parallel sprice> build scripts? I did it in very silly way, make package in each ports/*/* directory. I've read his paper and I'd like to try it once his scripts are placed somewhere. sprice> BTW, have any of your fixes been incorporated? I've missed sprice> them if they have. I haven't made any fix on ports tree yet. I wanted to know how many ports can be build at this point and what will be problem on alpha. I checked only for build, I don't know whether the packages work correctly. sprice> Since, Satoshi was cc'd on this maybe we should start to think sprice> about a BROKEN_ALPHA a 'la BROKEN_ELF? We may have alpha specific ports. (e.g. fast math library written in assembler) BRONKEN_I386 or ONLY_FOR_ALPHA should be necessary. sprice> # I think I can help to work on ports for alpha, My machine is EB166 (666MHz) Oops, EB164. sprice> Got a spare one of these? :) Seriously is this a machine sprice> that you could (mostly) dedicate to building Alpha packages? Sorry no spare, but I suppose I can mostly dedicate to it for a while. sprice> What kind of connectivity to *.freebsd.org do you have? If sprice> it is pretty good maybe we could set something up to ship the sprice> packages over to one of Satoshi's build machines. The ultimate Not so bad. simokawa@ett[9]:~/tmp> ping freebsd.org PING freebsd.org (204.216.27.18): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 204.216.27.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=131.462 ms 64 bytes from 204.216.27.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=135.267 ms sprice> packages over to one of Satoshi's build machines. The ultimate sprice> would be to have an Alpha machine among Satoshi's arsenal sprice> that could build a new package tree every couple of days, sprice> but beggars can't be choosers as the old saying goes. :) sprice> sprice> Satoshi, sprice> sprice> Could we start a fledgling package tree for Alpha with the sprice> ones Shimokawa-san already has? Actually, I have no modified port tree now. Once a policy (BROKEN_* , "ifdef __alpha__" or "ifdef __alpha") is settled, I'll start to fix ports for alpha. Shall I send "weekly (or daily) report on broken ports on alpha"? /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP public key: finger -l simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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