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> I'm glad I have a second. I now would like some response
> Jules> from the people who got the port as far as it is, so I know
> Jules> the current status of things...
>
> Before you can get terribly far at all, you need a perl package (most
> of the deb* stuff relies on it). I've buit perl a couple of time (as
> have a number of others) but there's a problem with the kernel support
> for FP. I'm currently (as tuits come to hand) trying to find a kernel
> which resolves this issue. My next attempt will be Derrick Brashear's
> 2.0.35 source snapshot which may or may not get touched today (R/L &
> all that).
>
> After that, UltraSparc here I come...
Huh?
Perl works!
I have 201 packages on my debian-sparc machine... including perl, X, ssh,
netstd, and so on.
debian-sparc is almost there... I'm just trying to work out where it is..
Jules
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