java 1.7on AlphaServer

2014-06-04 Thread maed
Greetings! I bout the AlphaServer DS25 about year ago (like big-and-heavy hardware :) ). I successfully installed Debian 5.0.10 (the latest Debian for alphas?) in order to run some java software, but installing openjdk7 seems to be a problem. There is a rather new port (package) called

Re: java 1.7on AlphaServer

2014-06-04 Thread Michael Cree
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:21:42AM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: I bout the AlphaServer DS25 about year ago (like big-and-heavy hardware :) ). Nice! I successfully installed Debian 5.0.10 (the latest Debian for alphas?) Debian Alpha remains at Debian-Ports if you want a more up to date version.

Re[2]: java 1.7on AlphaServer

2014-06-04 Thread maed
Speaking about big-and-heavy... will buy SUN Fire v880 or v890 sometimes :) First of all I'm the one shouting for instructions about how to install ble eding edge Debian Sid on alpha ( I`m BSD guy, not Linux one; I used OpenBSD on my DS25 until now). I gess I have to reinstall whole system

Re: java 1.7on AlphaServer

2014-06-04 Thread Michael Cree
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:05:20PM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: First of all I'm the one shouting for instructions about how to install ble eding edge Debian Sid on alpha I still have a draft copy of the instructions. Might be a couple of days before I can find time to put them somewhere on the

Re: preparing for GCC 4.9

2014-06-04 Thread David Gosselin
Hello and apologies for the cross-post, I've built GCC 4.9 on my PowerMac G5 (ppc64) running Debian 7.3. I'd like to support the port of Debian to this platform using GCC 4.9 and would appreciate a pointer on where to begin if possible. Additionally, I could provide a SSH login to the

Re: java 1.7on AlphaServer

2014-06-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:39:00PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:05:20PM +0300, m...@ukr.net wrote: First of all I'm the one shouting for instructions about how to install ble eding edge Debian Sid on alpha I still have a draft copy of the instructions. Might be a