Greetings, and thanks so much for your feedback!  I'm just trying to
reproduce and debug the FTBFS failure in sparc64 at debian-ports, on
machine 'sompek'.  A sid chroot somewhere is fine.

http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gcl&arch=sparc64&ver=2.6.10-44&stamp=1407634967

Take care,

Patrick Baggett <[email protected]> writes:

> I would think it should be possible, but the whole sparc/sparc64 divide is 
> something I don't really quite understand. I'm not sure what a "sparc64
> porterbox" would look like. Are you asking for an environment where all of 
> the userland is 64-bit binaries? If so, I don't think debian has a true
> sparc64 porterbox yet -- mostly chroots from what I understand. But from a 
> technical standpoint, there are a number of reasons why pure 64-bit
> environments aren't desired, and why there hasn't been much of a rush to get 
> them.
>
> So all of that having been said, are you trying to create a 64-bit gcc binary 
> in "pure" 64-bit environment? Or just a gcc that can build 64-bit
> sparc programs on sparc?
>
> - Patrick
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Greetings!  I've tried in the past building sparc64 on smetana with gcc
>     switches and environment variables and failed.  Is this possible?
>     Instructions?
>    
>     Take care,
>    
>     Patrick Baggett <[email protected]> writes:
>    
>     > Any modern SPARC kernel will run 64-bit sparc code, and the multilib 
> gcc will generate both 32-code and 64-bit code. I believe that is
>     enough, but
>     > I'm not 100% sure.
>     >
>     > Patrick
>     >
>     > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Greetings!  Does anyone know of an available porterbox to fix an
>     >     gcc-4.9-introduced gcl FTBFS on sparc64?
>     >
>     >     Take care,
>     >     --
>     >     Camm Maguire                                        
> [email protected]
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Camm Maguire                                        [email protected]
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