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<div dir="auto">By the way, I invested quite a bit of time recently building new packages for Solaris 10 SPARC, including Python, SDL, Numpy, Geany and many others. I took detailed notes and had a fair amount of success, although I wasn't able to figure out
how to build newer versions of GCC. This became a limiting factor because many open source projects, especially anything GNU, have moved to C++17 and even newer versions (for no apparent reason, as far as I can tell). </div>
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<div dir="auto">I did inquire about releasing my builds in the OpenCSW repository, but I never got a response.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I am interested in how to compile GCC 9 for Solaris 10, as well as generating these updated packages on OpenCSW.</div>
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<div dir="auto">It's really a hobby, I'm not doing this because I'm constrained to 25 year old hardware...</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 4, 2025 9:33:43 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Time for some updates</font>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sat 4 Jan 2025, 14:58 Yuri via users, <<a href="mailto:users@lists.opencsw.org">users@lists.opencsw.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>Gentlemen, don't you think it's time for some updates?</span></span><br>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>For example, Perl.</span></span> <span><span>It's too old, 14 years is a bit too much to run most of the CPAN modules. Or GCC.</span></span>
<span><span>I'd like to see at least 6.5 in 2024. Or openvpn.</span></span> <span>
<span>The current version is outdated.</span></span> <span><span><br>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>Redis is generally archaic, given that 5.0.14 is built from sources on Solaris 10 without any problems.</span></span>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>I understand that the problem of maintainers has not gone away and in general - if you want something, build it yourself.</span></span><br>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>But let's at least refresh Perl and GCC a little, okay?</span></span>
<span><span>They are hopelessly ancient. If I can build a compiler from sources myself, whichever I like, then I couldn't build Perl.</span></span>
<span><span>Not with any attempt.</span></span></span></p>
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<div dir="auto">I think you already understand the problem here. The people that were investing their time in this aren't doing that much anymore because they've moved on. It's been a long time since I logged into any Solaris machine at this point and it's
unlikely I will in the future. If I do, it's very unlikely to be building software on it. I think many other folks are in a similar position because they are scratching different itches in different technical contexts. Not everyone has moved on, but those
still here seemingly don't have a need to update these packages.</div>
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<div dir="auto">If you need these, I suggest you roll up your sleeves. Dago can still get you access to the build farm where you'd have a pretty straight forward path to building the updated packages you want.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I know this doesn't actually help you, but at least it confirms your suspicion. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks</div>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>Maybe there are newer versions posted somewhere and I just don't see them?</span></span>
<span><span>For example, in unstable or testing?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en"><span><span>WBR, Yuri<br>
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