I’m going to have a look at this over my summer break and will post any progress.
Have a good festive season!! Mike Hosken Sent via my iPhone > On 24 Dec 2025, at 10:24, Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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! >
