Sun2 shared libraries

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:38:43AM +0000, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: he
> Date:         Sun May 17 11:38:43 UTC 2009
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/bin: Makefile
> 
> Log Message:
> Add LDADD+= and DPADD+= settings so that this builds on sun2 as well,
> where we can't rely on shared libraries expressing the needs of the
> program.

[This isn't specific to netpgp, I had the same discussion over
one of the other libraries that we have - agc]

Once again, we come down to having to modify Makefiles for the sole
benefit of Sun2s. So I'll ask again - does anyone have one any more?

The last Sun2 I used must have been 1987, so I suspect most of its
use these days is from emulators. If not, can someone send me a
picture please - it's been a long, long time.

Yeah, I know it's a little thing, but it's the principle - since
bending over backwards to support slow and old platforms may impact
support for newer platforms, and the excellent performance figures
that Andrew showed with the release of 5.0.

        http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_5_0_an_overview
        http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/

Wouldn't it be more advantageous to the project as a whole to bring
the support for Sun2s into line with every other port, or to just
retire the Sun2 port in general. Having to customise things for the
sake of a port which is more than 20 years old seems to me to be
getting our priorities wrong.

Regards,
Alistair