Re: Rewriting pkglint in a portable language

[Tim Zingelman <tez%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:57:53PM -0500, William 'Cryo' Coldwell wrote:
>> What is the portability problem with Go?
>
> None if gccgo can be used and made to work (currently Go 1.4 with gcc
> 5.3 - which realistically means "we have no clue if any of this works
> with NetBSD right now")
>
> Otherwise the list of supported targets is extremely short and lacking
> sparc*, powerpc (32bit), mips (32bit), m68k, sh, vax at least.
>
> The other question, of course, is: on what targets would a pkgsrc developer
> want to run pkglint, but at least in my case that includes sparc64.
>
> Martin

+1 on sparc64 (w/Solaris 10)

 - Tim