* On 2026-02-07 at 12:24 GMT, Greg Troxel wrote:
When you post, it would be good to describe solaris 2.9 in terms of release date, EOL date and how it relates to current solaris. Also how bootstrap/README.Solaris is or is not correct.
It is very very EOL. While officially 2014, in reality much earlier than that.
My last bulk build for Solaris 9/sparc is here: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2006/12/01/msg003723.htmlnearly 20 years ago, and even that was a year after the 9/05 update release of Solaris 9 which was the last update for it.
I agree that we should do what we can to support it, I certainly still have a soft spot for it and it took me a while to come around to the much larger and more complicated Solaris 10, but not at the detriment of performance or readability for current systems.
You're going to have more issues with third party software support than pkgsrc infrastructure, by a long way. Especially as support in GCC for Solaris 9 was dropped in GCC 5, so even C++ is going to be a huge burden.
This is where a pkgsrc-legacy branch would be useful, but there has never been enough interest in it.
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