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"Conway S. Smith" <beolach@×××××××.net> posted |
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20070528071415.415b75f1@××××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on Mon, |
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28 May 2007 07:14:15 -0600: |
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> Last I heard, Gentoo/FBSD was stalled, due to licensing terms. But it |
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> was some time ago, has that changed? |
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I don't believe it's stalled now. Among other things, Roy is designing |
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Baselayout-2 to be friendlier to Gentoo/FBSD. Baselayout-2 is a pretty |
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recent development, and definitely still masked as it's still in serious |
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development. (FWIW, I've been running 1.13.0_alphaXX for some time, |
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since it was hard masked tho it seems to be ~arch now, but I've not tried |
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2.0 yet, at all.) |
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The worst recent blow, AFAIK, was when Flameeyes quit, as that was his |
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baby (well, one of them, he was incredibly productive all over the |
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place). Fortunately, he's back, but taking it a bit slower this time, |
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mainly focusing on GFBSD. |
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BTW, his blog at http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ has some very |
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interesting entries re the thread topic, and this subthread, and gcc |
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as well. |
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First, his latest entry explains a bit about coming back (the links |
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include date and title): |
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http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/27/shedding-a-light-on-my-return |
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Second, back on the second page, he discusses his work on OpenJDK. |
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He's mainly interested in getting it to work for GFBSD since the |
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FBSD version is old and vulnerable, but he's getting it working |
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on Gentoo Linux first. Apparently, it DOES compile on amd64, but |
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may require a bit of tweaking due to path lengths. Anyway, worth |
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reading for anyone following the GPLv2ing of Java, particularly |
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as it applies to Gentoo and specifically, Gentoo/amd64. |
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Three entries: |
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http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/09/openjdk-and-gentoo-freebsd |
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http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/10/my-fiddling-with-openjdk |
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http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/15/openjdk-the-vulnerabilities-and-you |
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Finally, as one who has unmasked gcc-4.2.0 locally, and recompiled |
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my entire system (that'll work with it, I've about a half-dozen |
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packages that won't), this entry on gcc 4.3 and the problems |
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it's going to cause is interesting: |
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http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/11/gcc-4-3-it-will-be-a-bloodshed |
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Hmm... the g2planet RSS feed doesn't seem to be carrying flameeyes |
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blog again yet. Having just read a bunch of it, and found |
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all that interesting stuff, I'm going to have to rss-feed it directly... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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