Hi! In December many expressed interest in porting MariaDB to hppa, but I didn't notice any comments on any of the bug report or MR or any other follow-up, so I guess perhaps people didn't have time for this after all..?
> >>>> 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/-/merge_requests/146 > >>>> did get some progress, so if you want to take on this challenge, you > >>>> don't need to start from zero. > >>>> > >>>> 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. > >>> > >>> The first step should be disabling Java support on hppa. Since OpenJDK > >>> currently > >>> does not support hppa due to the stack growing from upwards, any packages > >>> that > >>> make use of Java won't work on hppa. > >>> > >>> 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 to > >>> complete that work in the future though. > >> > >> > >> Sure, sounds like a great place to start? I will try to get it setup and > >> disable the java functionality first, perhaps to try and get it running. > > > > 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). > > > > Thanks for taking a stab at making this package build and pass tests in > > hppa! > >
