Re: Any hppa porters interested in getting MariaDB working?

Hi Otto,

On Tue, 2025-12-23 at 01:28 -0800, Otto Kek=C3=A4l=C3=A4inen wrote:
> I've spent quite a lot of effort in trying to get MariaDB work on all
> Debian architectures and I am happy to state that the situation
> visible at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=3Dmariadb is
> pretty good today. The only remaining problematic ones are hppa and
> Hurd.

This is very much appreciated and not something that many maintainers care
about, so thanks a lot for all your hard work to make mariadb work everywhe=
re!

> Are there any hppa porters with an interest in getting MariaDB working
> in the port?

I think Helge and Dave are definitely interested in fixing MariaDB on hppa.

> I am happy to take your patches, do additional testing and do uploads.
> Unfortunately I can't do the actual port fixing myself as there is too
> much work and the domain is something I am not strong in. My attempt
> at fixes at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_=
requests/146
> did get some progress, so if you want to take on this challenge, you
> don't need to start from zero.
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> I also have good experiences of getting upstream to accept porting
> related patches (e.g. https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4480) so
> if you fix this in Debian and submit patches upstream, you most likely
> will get those fixes into MariaDB permanently for all users globally.

The first step should be disabling Java support on hppa. Since OpenJDK curr=
ently
does not support hppa due to the stack growing from upwards, any packages t=
hat
make use of Java won't work on hppa.

There is some work-in-progress port for OpenJDK on hppa that I worked on so=
me
years ago but I never finished the actual work. It might be a good idea to
complete that work in the future though.

Adrian

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