Re: more binary packages and emacs status

Andrew Randrianasulu <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:30:26 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
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=D1=81=D1=80, 21 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2. 2026 =D0=B3., 21:13 Riccardo Mottola <=
[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> after Christmas pause... I resumed some building.
>
> some more useful stuff... mercurial and tcl.
> xcoral editor.
>
> not  bad. Big failures right now are emacs (but we have xemacs)
>
> Overall an interesting "pack" for me but I guess for other who want to
> start and need the basics.
>
> Mouse wrote:
> > How much space is needed?  I've got some space I could volunteer,
> > though it's behind a slow DSL link.
>
> right now I have 218 packages and 378MB
>

Cool. Do you have gcc from pkgsrc among them? I failed miserable to compile
it ... (I think I tried to pull netsurf, and it tried to pull vim-shared
(for xxd) and this tried to pull gcc and that failed no matter how big swap
(for qemu) I tried.



> Right now I am attempting ImageMagick!
> And later I will try a BASIC interpreter, might be useful
> Then windowmaker.
>
>
>
> Has anyone attempted compiling (hateful) rust on a low-end machine? on
> SPARC? I remember that even on my Intel i3 Core laptop with 3 or 4GB it
> was unbearable and took more than a day...
>

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_contai=
ner"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">=D1=81=D1=80, 21 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=
=B2. 2026 =D0=B3., 21:13 Riccardo Mottola &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:riccardo.mo=
[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;:<br></div><blockquote c=
lass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;=
padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
after Christmas pause... I resumed some building.<br>
<br>
some more useful stuff... mercurial and tcl.<br>
xcoral editor.<br>
<br>
not=C2=A0 bad. Big failures right now are emacs (but we have xemacs)<br>
<br>
Overall an interesting &quot;pack&quot; for me but I guess for other who wa=
nt to <br>
start and need the basics.<br>
<br>
Mouse wrote:<br>
&gt; How much space is needed?=C2=A0 I&#39;ve got some space I could volunt=
eer,<br>
&gt; though it&#39;s behind a slow DSL link.<br>
<br>
right now I have 218 packages and 378MB<br></blockquote></div></div><div di=
r=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Cool. Do you have gcc from pkgsrc am=
ong them? I failed miserable to compile it ... (I think I tried to pull net=
surf, and it tried to pull vim-shared (for xxd) and this tried to pull gcc =
and that failed no matter how big swap (for qemu) I tried.</div><div dir=3D=
"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st=
yle=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Right now I am attempting ImageMagick!<br>
And later I will try a BASIC interpreter, might be useful<br>
Then windowmaker.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Has anyone attempted compiling (hateful) rust on a low-end machine? on <br>
SPARC? I remember that even on my Intel i3 Core laptop with 3 or 4GB it <br=
>
was unbearable and took more than a day...<br>
</blockquote></div></div></div>

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