On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:54:28PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Johnny C. Lam wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:13:16AM +1000, Matt.VanDeWerken@csiro.au wrote:
> >> 
> >> I have an old HP 712 on which I run nextstep 3.3 (don't ask...).
> >> However, it would be really nice to be able to run some up to date
> >> packages on this system (like new-ish gcc and bash); I was wondering
> >> firstly if anyone has done any work porting pkgsrc to this type of
> >> system (or even nextstep of any arch), and if not, how hard it is to
> >> port pkgsrc to something like that?
> >
> > I think it would be great!  The things that need to happen to port
> > pkgsrc to a new platform are:
> 
> Owning a NS 3.3 "Black hardware" box, and an intel running NS 3.3, I can only
> agree, and I'd be interested to help out, 
> 

That is great news. You are welcomed.

> BUT:
> 
> >     (1) Port the bootstrap kit in pkgsrc/bootstrap.
> 
> There's the culprit: Modern gcc doesn't support nextstep anymore.
> 

gcc 2.95.3 should do for a while. 

> >     (4) Make pkgsrc/lang/perl58 build & install.
> 
> perl56 used to build straight out of the box - perl58 shouldn't be that
> much of a problem :)
> 
> 

Did you manage to get perl56 running on NS3.3? Realy? Not NS4.2?
I never did had this success. 
But I'm always trying to learn...

> 

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