Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@netaxs.com>]

> Now that I'll believe.

I've been running Debian on my ultra5 for about two years now, and love it.

> Would you do a cc -v for me too, Time? (Have you built your own
> kernel locally?)

Kernels are built using the egcs64 package, which provides:

  [mct@quint ~]$ sparc64-linux-gcc.egcs64 -v
  Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc64-linux/egcs-2.92.11/specs
  gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)

This is running Debian stable (potato).

> Judging by their web page, they're well aware that things aren't
> exactly perfect with 64-bit compiling. It makes it sounds like
> they're duplicating the FSF's efforts, though... one of the gcc 3
> goals is to actually do 64-bit linking properly.

Unfortunately, gcc3 doesn't produce very stable kernels, I hear.

-mct