Re: Shared m68k packages (Was: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/m68k/m68k)

[Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 03:44:49 David Brownlee wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 16:37, Nathanial Sloss
> 
> <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> > [.. thread on buggy lc040 workaround ..]
> > 
> > What I was after was a uniform approach to all m68k (buggy lc040's
> > included).
> > 
> > It makes me wonder even why we build different packages for sun, amiga,
> > x68k, and mac68k also....when they are all m68k :(
> 
> I'm sure jklos@ can correct me if I'm mistaken :-p but in general
> pkgsrc builds share packages across all m68k platforms. If there was
> sufficient additional compute available it is more likely we would
> split builds by processor - eg '020 vs '040.
> 
> There are differences mainly in /usr/include which will result in
> small differences in generated binaries, but in general It Does Not
> Matter which m68k platform was used to build the pkgsrc packages.
> 
> A potentially interesting task would be to reduce those differences
> for most (if not all) m68k userlands - probably starting with merging
> /usr/include and then onto moving the small set of port specific
> binaries to be triggered on m68k rather than the specific port :-p
> 


Thanks for the background and info.

Best regards,

Nat

> David