svn commit: r504198 - head/Mk

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 06:13:46AM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 05:58:22PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > These old GCC releases are often the only working solution for ports
> > on sparc64/powerpc
> 
> I'm not aware of the powerpc dependencies.  Do you have a list?
> We are actively working on ports on powerpc (especially powerpc64).

Actually, things look better on powerpc, last time I recall I was able
to successfully build gcc7 port for it.  Typically I'd use earlier
versions because they take less tmpfs space and faster to build.

> w/rt sparc64, I no longer consider sparc64 viable.  There is too much
> pushback whenever I mention it.  My development machines were powered
> down 1.5 years ago as I turned my attention primarily to powerpc64
> and to some extent arm*.

That's very sad.  I've been fixing some BROKEN_sparc64 ports in the
early 2018 using QEMU.  It was very slow, but worked fine overall.
I forgot exactly which FreeBSD version I was able to boot.

./danfe