[geeks] Sun Ultra 1

[Mike Parson]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:08:45PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sun, 08 Aug 2004 @ 21:12 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:
>
>> If I understand what you are suggesting, I think it won't work.
>> NetBSD/sparc64 won't run 32bit executables if I understand correctly.
>> This also is a large bummer about that port.
>
> No, it runs 32-bit execs just fine.
>
> That's how I got some things up and running on it until overnight builds
> finished.
>
>>> I've also considered running Solaris on it, but it's just so much easier
>>> to build and maintain software on NetBSD.
>>
>> I generally find Solaris about as easy, as long as I'm using GCC rather
>> than Sun CC.  
>
> As easy as:
>
>     cd /usr/pkgsrc/<program>
>     make install
>
> on Solaris?

Well, you gotta bootstrap your pkgsrc environment first:

	cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap 
	./bootstrap

Then you can:

	cd /usr/pkgsrc/<program>
	nmake install

> That's what I was talking about.

Yup.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org