Re: bootstrapping on HP-UX

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:53:47 +0200
Lehel Bernadt <lehel%maxer.hu@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 05:15:58AM +0000, nia wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 06:06:17PM +0200, Lehel Bernadt wrote:
> >> The command line is "./bootstrap --abi 64 --prefer-pkgsrc yes" and after
> >> starting to build gcc2 for some reason, it fails here:
> >
> >Attempting to build gcc2 is pkgsrc's way of telling you it couldn't
> >find a toolchain.
> >
> >According to bootstrap/README.HPUX, using a prebuilt GCC binary
> >distribution is the way to go. These are available here:
> >
> >http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/misc/tnn/gcc-4.2.3-hpux-11.11-32.tar.gz
> 
> I had read this file, and also 
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_use_pkgsrc_on_hp-ux/ and neither did 
> explicitly warn against using the HP C compiler for bootstrapping.
> Anyway, I downloaded the above archive, but this is a PA-RISC toolchain, and it 
> fails on Itanium:

Unfortunately Integrity machines capable of running HP-UX are made of
high-refined Unobtainum. I was never able to procure one.
pkgsrc is thus pretty much untested. However, HP-UX on Itanium uses
64-bit ELF so if you can source a working toolchain elsewhere there are
decent odds of it being in better shape than the PA-RISC support.

-Tobias