Hey, all!
Probably against everyone's better judgement, I was able to get
pkgsrc-2025Q4 bootstrapped on Solaris/sparc 2.9 with surprisingly few
changes and patches. I haven't yet tried them on older versions of
Solaris, but likely will over the coming weeks. I don't know how many
folks, besides me, would be interested in using it, but it'll bootstrap,
at least.
That said, what is the preferred way/place/person to talk about it, or
do I just dump it all here?
I thought about port-sparc, but because this is about pkgsrc itself, not tied to underlaying NetBSD - probably here is the right place?
By bootstrap you mean whole compiler toolchain too, or mostly bmake and stuff?
I wonder how much software still works in this combination (autotools-based one probably might remember Solaris this vintage, cmake ..... )
It sad to see Rust taking over important libraries like librsvg (NetBSD does have older librsvg-c, but who knows how long it will work ...) or just small utilities like pngquant . Makes "openness" too dependant on powerful machine, and specific types of machine at that ...