Hi! > Wonderful, I would also like to show interest to work alongside Helge and > Dave on porting MariaDB to hppa.
Great! >> > 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!
