[geeks] Sun Ultra 1

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 @ 21:12 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:

> If I understand what you are suggesting, I think it won't work.
> NetBSD/sparc64 won't run 32bit executables if I understand correctly.
> This also is a large bummer about that port.

No, it runs 32-bit execs just fine.

That's how I got some things up and running on it until overnight builds
finished.

> > I've also considered running Solaris on it, but it's just so much easier
> > to build and maintain software on NetBSD.
> 
> I generally find Solaris about as easy, as long as I'm using GCC rather
> than Sun CC.  

As easy as:

    cd /usr/pkgsrc/<program>
    make install

on Solaris?

That's what I was talking about.


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