[rescue] Looking for SUN4U/SUN4V machines for a porting project

[Freya Fractal]

not as yet, no. we own highenergymagic.net, but we hadn't put up 
anything there about it as-yet, mostly because it's only now that we're 
really taking it seriously. It originally started as just us seeing if 
things would compile, and expanded massively... we later realised that 
we had broken the build in such a way that it is highly likely that many 
of the important packages would have undesired links to libraries (many 
of them 32-bit) in /opt/csw, which is suboptimal, as the intent of this 
package is that it is able to be installed on a clean Solaris 10u11 1/13 
system. If proof is required of what we have created, we are able to 
provide the copy of FractalKit that we archived when we started the 
project over, but be aware that it's an organically expanding mess, none 
of the binaries and packages are signed and much of the porting was done 
in a very inexperienced manner. The current plan for FractalKit 25 is to 
build everything 64-bit clean, with no links to OpenCSW libraries, with 
signed ELF binaries and each component offered as a signed SVR4 package 
datastream. extended goals are to distribute this as an ISO image that 
can be burnt to a DVD and can be installed alongside Solaris at the 
"install additional software" step of the installer, if we can figure 
out how the Solaris installer expects the DVD's hierarchy to be arranged.


On 5/30/2025 21:43, Patrick Giagnocavo via rescue wrote:
> I can't find anything about your project on the web; do you have a 
> website?
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM Freya Fractal via rescue 
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
>     Hiya,
>
>
>     Like the subject line says. We're looking to see if anyone in
>     NZ/Australia has a SPARC (sun4u/sun4v) machine they'd be willing to
>     donate to the FractalKit project. FractalKit is a collection of
>     modern
>     packages for Solaris 10/11 on SPARC, covering web servers (Nginx
>     1.28,
>     Apache 2.4.62), security (OpenSSL 3.4.0, GnuTLS 3.7), shell utilities
>     (coreutils 9.5, bash 5.3, zsh 5.9), tcsh), programming languages (PHP
>     8.4.1, Ruby 3.2.3, Perl 5.40.0, python 3.13), libraries and
>     development
>     tools (too many to list), compilers (GCC 9.5.0 C, C++, fortran,
>     objective C), databases (SQLite 3.44.3, PostgreSQL 15.8, MariaDB
>     if we
>     can get it to build), editors (nano 8.4, vim 9.1), and
>     replacements for
>     network-facing services (primarily OpenSSH) that need to be kept
>     up-to-date, especially for those lacking MOS/Sunsolve access. we're
>     currently rebuilding the entire project from scratch after
>     realising we
>     made some fatal errors, but we can send, on request, the full
>     previous
>     build of FractalKit as a demonstration. However, we've run into a
>     problem: The only SPARC machine we have is a Sun Blade 150, with a
>     650MHz UltraSPARC-IIe, 768MiB of ram, and an IDE hard disk. Does it
>     compile things? Yes. Does it also take in excess of 24 hours to build
>     something like gcc? also yes. So we're looking for a bit of SPARC
>     kit,
>     preferably SUN4V, that one of yall lovely entities would be
>     willing to
>     send to us to help advance the project.
>
>
>     Thank you in advance,
>
>
>     Freya
>
>
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