Re: Any hppa porters interested in getting MariaDB working?

I=E2=80=99m going to have a look at this over my summer break and will post a=
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Have a good festive season!!
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> On 24 Dec 2025, at 10:24, Otto Kek=C3=A4l=C3=A4inen <[email protected]> wrot=
e:
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> =EF=BB=BFHi!
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>> Wonderful, I would also like to show interest to work alongside Helge and=
 Dave on porting MariaDB to hppa.
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> Great!
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>>>> 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/-/merg=
e_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.
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>>> The first step should be disabling Java support on hppa. Since OpenJDK c=
urrently
>>> does not support hppa due to the stack growing from upwards, any package=
s that
>>> make use of Java won't work on hppa.
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>>> There is some work-in-progress port for OpenJDK on hppa that I worked on=
 some
>>> years ago but I never finished the actual work. It might be a good idea t=
o
>>> complete that work in the future though.
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>> Sure, sounds like a great place to start? I will try to get it setup and d=
isable the java functionality first, perhaps to try and get it running.
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> Please start by reading the
> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/146
> I mentioned in my original email, and the notes and comments in it. It
> will help you avoid doing things I already did, and there are also
> commands linked you can just copy-paste to get the build and test
> suite going on a porter box (or anywhere).
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> Thanks for taking a stab at making this package build and pass tests in hp=
pa!
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