Re: Is *anyone* using pkgsrc on IRIX?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:55:44AM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> On Thursday 2020-04-23 03:07, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 09:49:43AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > [Recently a patch to libffi to accomodate IRIX has caused a problem on
> > > another platform.  In discussing what ought to be done, I asked if
> > > anyone was using pkgsrc on IRIX, but that thread is not likely to be
> > > seen by most, so I'm asking here.]
> > 
> > I would extend the question to other platforms without support in
> > cwrappers and with questionable support for DESTDIR. For example, I
> > would explicitly drop any pretense that we support SCO. It doesn't
> > support proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH behavior and that will incur random
> > breakage with DESTDIR builds.
> 
> I've been looking into pkgsrc for all the SCO Legacy OS's (UnixWare 7,
> OpenServer 6, and OpenServer 5).  We have a community of about 1,500 Users.
> With the Definitive Series the include a native development system and
> gcc-2.95.3.  I've successfully used Ryo ONODERA patches to get a gcc 4.2.4
> and binutils 2.24 to build a pkgsrc base on OpenServer 5 Definitive 2018 and
> OpenServer 5.0.7 MP5.

None of that fixes the problem with the dynamic linker.

Joerg