[Glibc-bsd-devel] ia64 donation for GNU/KFreeBSD

Robert Millan zeratul2@wanadoo.es
Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:11:05 +0000


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> 
> It might be worth noting that FreeBSD 5.0+ runs on ia64, so a port could
> be possible if we had such a box. With jails, we can safely run the
> repository and still do drastic development on the machine.

Yes, that'd be the way to go. Although starting the ia64 port would take
a while (Glibc lacks ia64-kfreebsd headers).

-- 
Robert Millan

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