Subject: NetBSD-current on sparc64 comments
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/25/2001 01:06:56
Just installed current (1.5X) on my Ultra1:
- The fact that -current is much better than 1.5.x on
sparc64 is not news to most on this list, but we really
ought to mention this on the webpage. Had I just stuck
with 1.5.1 on the box I would never have considered
putting it to real use. -current changed that.
- Found the odd compiler codegen and LP64_LE issue in pkgsrc
but its happily compiled up and run a bunch of applications
including apache, gimp, ghostscript, xv, perl.
- The only real issue I've hit is that there seems to be
a problem compiling C++. A 'hello world' program will
fail at runtime with:
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4: Undefined symbol "" (reloc type = 54, symnum = 18)
gcc -v reports 2.95.3. Was this toolchain used to build
the snapshot? (ie: groff)
- Its a 256MB machine but it always seems to have over
100MB free, I would have expected the UBC to take care
of that?
- Much kudos to those working on sparc64.
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