Re: [retro] darwin/ppc status report

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 4/21/24 16:07, nia wrote:
> A good test case for pkgsrc's legacy support.
>
> Primary challenges
> - strict Mach-O linker (needs libtool)
> - GCC 4.0 (very old, no C11/C++11 support, default c90)
>
> Let's look at BULK_TEST_ESSENTIAL on this platform:
>
> lua: All versions work.
> php: All versions build, but >5.6 segfaults with SIGBUS.
>       Needs more investigation.
> python: 3.10 works. 3.11/3.12 require C11 and stdatomic.
> ruby: No. All versions in pkgsrc require C11
> mariadb: No. All versions in pkgsrc reqiure C11/C++11/stdatomic
>           via cmake.
> postgresql: 15 works. The linker trips up on 16. Needs more
>              investigation.
> perl5: Works
> git-base: Works
> mutt: Works
> nano: Works
> rsync: Works
> screen: Works
> vim: Works
> apache24: Works
> nginx: Works
> pkgin: Fails to parse database with sqlite syntax error
> emacs-nox11: Fails to build
> nmap: Fails to build
> dovecot2: Fails to build
>
> Getting this far has taken lots of work. All in all, though,
> considering this platform is 20 years old, and this is by some
> definitions "bleeding edge software", a pretty impressive
> show by pkgsrc.
>
> More reading: https://www.NetBSD.org/~nia/tigersrc/

I suspect you could improve on this considerably using a pkgsrc GCC for
all but GCC & deps.  This is exactly the scenario I had to deal with
when supporting CentOS 6 and 7, which also use GCC 4.x as a "base" (Yum
package).  auto-pkgsrc-setup will allow you to choose a GCC version and
add the appropriate code to mk.conf.

http://netbsd.org/~bacon/

I don't have a PPC Mac, so this is all I can offer at the moment.

Cheers,

	J