On 03/12/12 20:20, Dafydd Crosby wrote:
> Hello,
>    I've been told on the IRC channel that the SPARC project is looking
> for a maintainer. I've got a SunBlade 2500 and experience building and
> maintaining RPM's, so if someone could let me know what needs to get
> done, I'd be happy to do it.
>
> -Dafydd Crosby

Atm I'm loking into the fc18 build environment that would be used to
bootstrap the whole fc18 build,.. there is a chunk of broken madness in
the binutils ld.so which I'm bisecting atm, I might have that fixed or
at least properly identified if I dunno what the answer to it is by
tomorrow. Thers also something a bit odd going on with gcc which stops
c++ being recompiled. glibc has a unprotected header (memcopy.h)  that
you need to fit a #ifndef _MEMCOPY_H, #define _MEMCOPY_H, #endif around.
Then to get past a few other items you need to compile gcc statically,..

Later on, kernelwise there is a pita where an asumption is made that
adressing is by 42bits when in actual fact it should be 48 leading to
spurious kernel hangs,.. loads and loads of other 'close but not right'
problems,.. I'm working through them but it's gonna be at least a week,
possibly two, before I have a buildroot environment ready to bootstrap
everything. (simplistic overview)

Not to mention the pile of catch 22 chicken egg shared lib broblems. Joy.

I also need to extricate a reasonably speced sparc into the community
ring from the lab. (endless paperwork and trying to convince folk to
authorise) as the sparcs that are currently used are looking somewhat
long in the tooth compared to. There is a ton of other administrative
paperpushing going on in the background that would make European
beurocrats blush. It's unfortunately just been slow getting it moving 8(

On the plus side I do have a static 2.7.2 gcc c compiler compiled up
though I'm using that to attack the ld.so problem I mentioned above.


Phil
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