Re: sparc packages?

Out of curiosity, how are the pkgin binaries compiled? Are they done so by
volunteers?

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 19:24:27 +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
>
> > Le ven. 3 mars 2023 ? 19:18, Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> a ecrit
> :
> > > (diskless sparc with nfs on a macppc without wapbl, g++ that needs a
> > > gig of swap does make it any easier).
> >
> > When I need to build a package, I usually cheat and do it in a Qemu
> > virtual machine on a fast x86-64 host. Still faster CPU-wise than a
> > pair of SM61, I/O are in a different league, and you can give it 1 GiB
> > of RAM to ease the pain on those 'modern' codes. It's not 100%
> > reliable, but it gets there faster than the actual hardware
> > nonetheless...
>
> That probably requires some setup effort that amortizes if you need to
> do it regularly, but doesn't for an one-off...  I don't mind typing
> make and then coming back a day or two later :), I don't really need
> that much packages on my sparc box.
>
> The weird failure I see is cmake boostrap:
>
>   -- Checking if compiler supports C++ make_unique
>   -- Checking if compiler supports C++ make_unique - no
>   ...
>   CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:101 (message):
>     The C++ compiler does not support C++11 (e.g.  std::unique_ptr).
>
>
>   -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>
> but there is no errors in CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log (except for clock
> skew warning, that, from rtfs, should not affect the gmake's exit
> status) and manually running the test-compile commands completes
> successfully.
>
> -uwe
>