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Re: powerpc maintainership
Hi,
For once Ulrich and I actually agree on something! ;-)
Franz has been almost single-handedly supporting gcc on ppc32 for a long
time and if anyone could give him or "permanently" loan him a better build
machine I am sure it would certainly help things.
(Franz if you want, I can bug Terrasoft to see if they could come up with a
new open motherboard. I have no contacts at Apple so I am not sure they
would be willing to provide a long-term loaner machine).
As for what is beefy for ppc, my dual G4 (1 gig hz each) with 768Meg of
memory running an smp kernel 2.4.19 was able to build glibc with
linuxthreads from scratch in 26 minutes while simultaneously performing a
full build of OpenOffice.org (which takes over 24hours of build time
without ccache on my machine). So without the OpenOffice.org build and
using parallel make, it should come close to Ulrich's build time.
So something on the order of my machine would certainly help I would think.
If no one bellies up to the bar with a machine, I am willing to chip in
some personal money if others would too if need be.
Kevin
On January 7, 2003 12:28, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> BTW, Franz said in a private mail that his work is greatly hindered by
> not having decent hardware. glibc is a beast and often complete
> recompilations are needed. I know that I usually do at 5 times a day or
> so.
>
> If some parties who have who have interest in the PPC32 port could
> provide some beefy hardware¹ he could use the time he has more
> efficiently. Franz is probably too shy to ask but I'm not. I haven't
> asked Franz whether he'd accept a loaner/gift but he now has the chance
> to say so. I know from all the mails I get when the PPC port is broken
> that there are many commercial users of the PPC port. Those should
> examine their conscience at see whether they are not feeling a bit
> guilty.
>
>
> ¹ I have no idea what "beefy" is in PPC-land. I can compile glibc in
> less than 10 mins on x86 and Hammer.