Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 12:58:02 -0700 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: building m3 for alpha... Message-ID: <XFMail.991103125802.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911031100100.10660-100000@remler.nas.nasa.gov>
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Matthew Jacob wrote: > > The current ports collection for m3 (necessary for cvsup, right) seems to > have a wad of i386 binaries as part of it- at least my naive attempts to > build it seemed to have run into this. What would you recommend be > done for an attempt to get this working on an alpha (which is of great > amusement to me because the DESCR seems to indicate that this came *from* > digital.....) The problem is with my port, not with Modula-3. Currently the port works only for the i386. (And I think it's broken on -current, besides). I am in the process of switching over to a different, better-maintained distribution of Modula-3 called "pm3". Unfortunately the port I'm making for it isn't done yet. I was well on the way, but needed some changes to <bsd.port.mk> to support it. Those went in shortly before FreeBSDCon, and I haven't gotten back to it since then. If you don't mind using binaries for CVSup, the "net/cvsup-bin" and "net/cvsupd-bin" ports will fetch and install the right ones for you, even on the alpha. If you really want to build it from source and don't want to wait for the port to be ready, I can tell you how. It's not particularly hard. But you're looking at 29 MB worth of distfiles and a fairly lengthy build. (One reason the port isn't done is because I'm stripping out a bunch of unnecessary stuff.) John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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