Re: Any hppa porters interested in getting MariaDB working?
Hi Otto,
On Tue, 2025-12-23 at 01:28 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I've spent quite a lot of effort in trying to get MariaDB work on all
> Debian architectures and I am happy to state that the situation
> visible at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb is
> pretty good today. The only remaining problematic ones are hppa and
> Hurd.
This is very much appreciated and not something that many maintainers care
about, so thanks a lot for all your hard work to make mariadb work everywhere!
> Are there any hppa porters with an interest in getting MariaDB working
> in the port?
I think Helge and Dave are definitely interested in fixing MariaDB on hppa.
> I am happy to take your patches, do additional testing and do uploads.
> Unfortunately I can't do the actual port fixing myself as there is too
> much work and the domain is something I am not strong in. My attempt
> at fixes at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/146
> did get some progress, so if you want to take on this challenge, you
> don't need to start from zero.
>
> I also have good experiences of getting upstream to accept porting
> related patches (e.g. https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4480) so
> if you fix this in Debian and submit patches upstream, you most likely
> will get those fixes into MariaDB permanently for all users globally.
The first step should be disabling Java support on hppa. Since OpenJDK currently
does not support hppa due to the stack growing from upwards, any packages that
make use of Java won't work on hppa.
There is some work-in-progress port for OpenJDK on hppa that I worked on some
years ago but I never finished the actual work. It might be a good idea to
complete that work in the future though.
Adrian
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