Re: sparc status? A cry for information, and an offer to help
On 21 Jul 1998, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Jules" == Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Jules> Huh?
>
> Jules> Perl works!
>
> Wow, just found it in my mirror - guess I should look there more often.
> The FPE problem still exists though....
I guess my SS2 has an FPU, so I haven't hit that one...
>
> Jules> I have 201 packages on my debian-sparc machine... including
> Jules> perl, X, ssh, netstd, and so on.
>
> So what do you think is missing?
Well, not *all* that much. See my original message. Things that spring
to mind are - menu, lots of the graphics stuff (we have GIMP though,
yay!), libg++272 (not valuable in itself, but key to compiling some other
things) and this ldd bug seems annoying, possibly serious.
Jules
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