Re: [Sbcl-bugs] can't compile sbcl-2.6.1 on OpenIndiana SPARC

On macOS powerpc it was 2-step bootstrap (as you may remember): archaic
official release to 2.4.6 to the latest one.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 5:55 AM Douglas Katzman via Sbcl-devel <
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> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM Klaus Ziegler via Sbcl-bugs <
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>>
>>
>> Would it also be possible to make my way up the
>> chain from 2.0.4 - 2.1.1 and so on...
>>
>> That may be possible in theory, but you're talking about stepping through
> 5 years of evolution with either 1 build per release or guessing how many
> months ahead you can jump before exposing a bug in the previous release.
> But aside from the tedium, you may hit problems with the older C runtime.
>   As a quick feasibility exercise, I went on a SunOS GCC farm machine,
> downloaded the prebuilt SBCL as you did, and I tried building 2.0.11 which
> failed in the C compile.
> I think you'll probably have an easier time using a known good (current)
> aarch64 or x86-64 host and doing a cross-build.
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