Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:36:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@nas.nasa.gov>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: building m3 for alpha... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9911031334540.6716-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991103125802.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Polstra wrote: > 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. Ah. > > 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. Nope- this will indeed work for me. > > 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.) > That'd be good too because I like to build stuff, but the binary only will solve my immediate need (cvsup running at NASA/Ames on a FreeBSD alpha). Thanks a lot! -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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