Hi Adrian, On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 12:07 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I was wondering how many here are still interested in the Debian > SPARC port? > > In the past weeks, I have invested some efforts to revive the sparc64 > port a bit and managed to get at least gcc-5 compile and work through > the build queue a bit. Rod Schnell, a user from the US, kindly > donated an UltraSPARC IIIi for use which I set up as an additional > buildd and porterbox (Hostname: raverin). > > Currently, there are some packages left like mozjs that need manual > porting before they will compile on sparc64. Furthermore, there are > a number of packages which fail with weird linker errors [1]:
Seen the Gold linker bug on sparc64? Do you think it's related? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790560 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18855 Thanks, Frans van Berckel

