Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > It is good to see activity again on the gubug list, after almost two > years of utter silence.
... and I really should apologize for that. Part of the reason was because the server itself (beastie.gubug.org) had suffered some downtime due to hardware failures. I had no parts that I could spare and no time to rebuild the box. And besides my usual workload, I had a terminally ill family member to care for. It has been quite a year. > During that time, we continue to run several BSD systems on virtual > machines in our software portability testing lab here, including > > OpenBSD 3.9 > OpenBSD 4.5 > FreeBSD 5.0 > FreeBSD 6.1 > NetBSD 1.6 > MirBSD 10 > > The last of these is likely unfamiliar to most list readers. Its Web > site is > > http://www.mirbsd.org/ I knew a few people that were involved with this project at one time. I'm not sure if they still are, but they seemed to enjoy working on it at the time. I've yet to try it myself, but I now have some hardware of my own that I have devoted to emulation/virtualization, so I'll be sure to take it for a spin at some point. It unfortunately lacks a power supply at the moment. ;-) It's actually called MirOS BSD now. As Wikipedia notes, the name MirBSD is deprecated. The reason for this (also noted in the entry) is because they would like to eventually have it running on the Linux kernel as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirOS_BSD > I've build a great many versions of gcc over the last several years, > and have decimal floating-point arithmetic in C now supported nicely > on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. So far, on MirBSD, I've only tried to build > gcc-4.5-20090618, and that failed. I'll keeping trying, however. Have you considered trying earlier versions in the 4.x branch? Or perhaps an earlier branch such as 3.x or 2.x? It might be interesting to see which versions of gcc, if any, will build and which won't. Also, which specific features cause the builds to break. Any thoughts as to why they chose to roll their own mgcc instead of going with GNU gcc? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 > - > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 > - > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: [email protected] > - > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [email protected] [email protected] > - > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ > - > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > gubug mailing list > [email protected] > https://gubug.org/mailman/listinfo/gubug -- Anthony Chavez Greater Utah BSD User Group mailto:[email protected] http://gubug.org/
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