By the way, I invested quite a bit of time recently building new packages for Solaris 10 SPARC, including Python, SDL, Numpy, Geany and many others. I took detailed notes and had a fair amount of success, although I wasn't able to figure out how to build newer versions of GCC. This became a limiting factor because many open source projects, especially anything GNU, have moved to C++17 and even newer versions (for no apparent reason, as far as I can tell).
I did inquire about releasing my builds in the OpenCSW repository, but I never got a response. I am interested in how to compile GCC 9 for Solaris 10, as well as generating these updated packages on OpenCSW. It's really a hobby, I'm not doing this because I'm constrained to 25 year old hardware... ________________________________ From: users <[email protected]> on behalf of Ben Walton via users <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 4, 2025 9:33:43 AM To: Questions and discussions <[email protected]> Cc: Ben Walton <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Time for some updates On Sat 4 Jan 2025, 14:58 Yuri via users, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Gentlemen, don't you think it's time for some updates? For example, Perl. It's too old, 14 years is a bit too much to run most of the CPAN modules. Or GCC. I'd like to see at least 6.5 in 2024. Or openvpn. The current version is outdated. Redis is generally archaic, given that 5.0.14 is built from sources on Solaris 10 without any problems. I understand that the problem of maintainers has not gone away and in general - if you want something, build it yourself. But let's at least refresh Perl and GCC a little, okay? They are hopelessly ancient. If I can build a compiler from sources myself, whichever I like, then I couldn't build Perl. Not with any attempt. I think you already understand the problem here. The people that were investing their time in this aren't doing that much anymore because they've moved on. It's been a long time since I logged into any Solaris machine at this point and it's unlikely I will in the future. If I do, it's very unlikely to be building software on it. I think many other folks are in a similar position because they are scratching different itches in different technical contexts. Not everyone has moved on, but those still here seemingly don't have a need to update these packages. If you need these, I suggest you roll up your sleeves. Dago can still get you access to the build farm where you'd have a pretty straight forward path to building the updated packages you want. I know this doesn't actually help you, but at least it confirms your suspicion. Thanks -Ben Maybe there are newer versions posted somewhere and I just don't see them? For example, in unstable or testing? WBR, Yuri
