Hi Jon, > Am 26.06.2024 um 07:43 schrieb Jonathan Cox via users > <[email protected]>: > I recently acquired a Sun Blade 2500 UltraSPARC IIIi dual-cpu workstation > running Solaris 10 1/13, and I’ve been working on building and testing > modern, UltraSPARC optimized packages for the following: > Python 3.9.19 > OpenBLAS 0.2.20 > Tcl/tk 8.6.14 > SDL2 2.30.4 > numpy 1.22.4 > lapack 3.12.0 > > I’m working on a few other things, such as other SDL2 components and other > python packages like matplotlib, pygame, etc. I found that, for a RISC > processor like the SPARC, configuring the compiler to target the proper CPU > makes a huge difference. Thus, I’d like to target at least -mcpu=ultrasparc, > preferably -mcpu=ultrasparc3. > > If it’s a relatively straightforward process to package this up as a package > and add it to OpenCSW, I could try to do that. Let me know if there is > interest. I’m a big Python fan, so I’m working toward having a complete > enough set of python tools to accomplish all the things I’m interested in.
This would indeed be interesting! Are you building your packages with GAR? That is a close to a requirement because the packages must also conform to a special structure so the OpenCSW infrastructure can process them. Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
