thus Michael spake:
> Hello,
> 
> 
>> maybe it's possible to fix this by running the 32bit binary from 
>> port-sparc (i'm digging into this right now for my cyrus stuff).
> 
> 
> Finding the bug and fixing it would be even better ;)
> 
> have fun Michael
> 

yip,

that's true, but main priority is to get the stuff running otherwise my
customer kills me :D

seriously, i'll just quote from tech-pkg (i think) from early may):

> Early versions of gcc-3 and GNU binutils had some significant
> problems on 64-bit platforms, for example had a heck of a time trying
> to get it to work sensibly even on the SPARC platform. [1]  However,
> gcc-3.3.{2-4} or later ought to be in pretty good shape, and I've
> heard that Apple has done a lot of work with gcc-4 for the 10.4/Tiger
> release of MacOS X which just came out.
> 
> I'm not convinced these issues are entirely GCC's fault, either,
> since there is a lot of code out there which makes assumptions which
> do not apply to 64-bit platforms, and there has been a considerable
> shakedown period getting these cleaned up for the PPC and even the
> AMD Opteron/EM64T targets.  Earlier this week, Kris Kennaway (he's
> <portmgr@freebsd.org>), mentioned something about the AMD64 ports
> build successfully building over 10,000 of the ~12,600 ports for the
> first time, but even, so about 20% of the software out there still
> isn't 64-bit clean. [2]
> 
> -- -Chuck
> 
> [1]: The EGCS team started working on a new optimizer/instruction
> scheduler called Haifa, which was starting with the SPARCv8 (v9?)
> architecture and the x86 platform as the primary targets.  The EGCS
> branch merged back into GCC as the start of the gcc-3 releases.
> 
> [2]: I have a better handle on the status of FreeBSD ports via
> freshports.org and the pointyhat/bento cluster than I have
> information about the pkgsrc builds for NetBSD.  If someone wants to
> point me towards comparable info for pkgsrc, that would be good too.
> :-)

cheers,

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