From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sc843@bard.edu Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 01:36:07 +0000 Subject: Re: More sparc64-libc questions Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Thanks Ben! Indeed it _is_ ld-linux.so.2 which segfaults (I'm using a recent CVS.) I'm seriously considering creating a pure 64-bit Sparc distribution of Linux. Everyting that can be would be native 64-bit (init, shells, X, etc...). Having the compiler working is a good thing, and I'll test glibc 2.2.4 and see whether that fixes my segfault problem. I understand that this will provide only marginal performance benefits, and that Debian has a solid distro out with 64-bit support, but I'm doing this as much for the adventure as for the performance benefits. How is a distribution usually begun? I'd take the next release of GCC (3.0.2) and the latest release of libc. This would probably be a personal project; I don't want to spend the kind of time required to keep packages up-to-date, etc. Would there any interest at all out there in a Sparc-bootable ISO with some tarballs that unpack to a bare- bones distro that could be used as a base to compile everything else? I'd probably use http://www.linuxfromscratch.org as a guide. Sincerely, Sean Callanan