Re: Does databases/db4 build on sparc32 ?

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM Andrew Randrianasulu
<randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM Hauke Fath
> <hauke%espresso.rhein-neckar.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:46:45 +0300, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> > >>> https://gnats.netbsd.org/43444
> > >>
> > >> Yikes. That is still open?
> > >
> > > There was no closing conclusion, so I think yes?
> >
> > Poe's Law, sorry -- EIRONYLOST
> >
> > >> I can put in the patches, but I neither have a reasonably recent
> > >> port-sparc instance available on short notice, nor any sparc assembler
> > >> fu. So somebody else would have to step up, or at least test the result
> > >> of my fat-fingering.  ;)
> > >
> > > I obviously will try to build mutt against db4/5 on qemu-system-sparc and
> > > see if I can browse some saved mboxes and extract patches from there
> >
> > <ftp://ftp.causeuse.org/pub/pkgsrc/pr-pkg-43444/db_pr43444.tar.gz> has
> > patched db4 and db5 packages. Please expand to <pkgsrc>/databases/,
> > build and run, and let me know how it went.
>
>
> db4 seems to work good enough for launching Mutt and read messages.
> I'm trying to pkg-rollong-replace few packages so it will take some
> time before I can upload packages ....

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> >
> > Cheerio,
> > Hauke
> >
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