Building for gmake-3.821 make all-recursive Making all in glob cc -DHAVECONFIGH -I. Building for pkgconf-0.8.9 cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DLIBDIR= '/usr/local/lib ' -DINCLUDEDIR= '/usr/local/include ' -DPKGDEFAULTPATH= '/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig ' -DSYSTEMINCLUDEDIR= '/usr/include ' -DSYSTEMLIBDIR= '/usr/lib ' -Wall -Wextra -Wformat=2 -std=gnu99 -DFORTIFYSOURCE=2 -c main.c -o main.o In file included from stdinc.h:26, from pkg.h:20, from main.c:17: /usr/include/sys/types.h:44:28: error: /usr/include/machine/endian.h: Bad file descriptor. main.o Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf/work/pkgconf-0.8.9. do-build Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf. build-depends Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xtrans. build-depends Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server.
install Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server. run-depends Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-minimal.But now I am stuck again as there is no built package available for PowerPC. Is it possible to replace the /usr/include/machine/endian.h with a 'good' copy? I have an old Sun Blade 100, which is Sparc 64 bit, and I have (2) 15 gig GB drives in it, 2 gig GB of ram RAM. I would like to use FreeBSD on it but since there are no ports pre-compiled for it, I have to compile everything myself; I simply cannot wait 24 hours for this, it 's too much trouble nursing this old box. OpenBSD comes with Xorg pre-loaded. Why can't we get this for FreeBSD?
I would love to experiment with FreeBSD on the old box, would like to have some X ability, so I can load a terminal program and some browser such as Firefox. Am I really that unique? There must be thousands of these older Sparc boxes out there waiting for a new life. I have an old Sun Blade 100, which is Sparc 64 bit, and I have (2) 15 gig GB drives in it, 2 gig GB of ram RAM. I would like to use FreeBSD on it but since there are no ports pre-compiled for it, I have to compile everything myself; I simply cannot wait 24 hours for this, it 's too much trouble nursing this old box. OpenBSD comes with Xorg pre-loaded. Why can't we get this for FreeBSD?
How to Install FreeBSD. This will guide you through the installation process for FreeBSD 9x or higher. FreeBSD/powerpc Apple® Macintosh®. All New World. Installing Linux on PowerPC Macs. I’ve experimented with Linux and BSD Macs going back to the Mac IIci era, and I’ve never had much luck. Back in the olden days, Linux was a text-based operating system similar to MS-DOS. I knew that I wanted to install it on a hard drive so it would boot more quickly and allow me to add more.
I would love to experiment with FreeBSD on the old box, would like to have some X ability, so I can load a terminal program and some browser such as Firefox. Am I really that unique? There must be thousands of these older Sparc boxes out there waiting for a new life. Yes, I guess adding to this thread was not the way to go. I should have started my own, but thought my problem was similar.
Anyway thanks for the link, the site you referenced lists pre-compiled binaries (packages)? I went ahead and reinstalled FreeBSD 9.1 last night, removing OpenBSD 5.3. Pkgadd -r nano yields no package result to fetch.
So I must build it locally from the ports collection, which I installed via portsnap. Is there a PKGPATH variable I must set in order to enable pkgadd -r to find packages?
Welcome, you can not install freebsd on the IBM PowerPC. You have to use a system based on the kernel linux, unfortunately there is no other option.
I encountered the same problem as you. As a solution, I recommend Yellow Dog, but after a long search through trial and error, I stopped at the two distributions can tap the full potential of your server. Asianux - based on RedHat recommend only that which is 100% compatible with all software under RedHat. (this choice depends on the configuration and the destination server).
Gentoo - I, too, and the PowerPC processor has 64-bit architecture. I have nothing to add here, from the system you already own can create anything you need. Including their own distro with loader yaboot. For my part, I stayed with Asianux, because my server business appointment. But I played them with gentoo, and was very pleased. Sorry for bad english, I'm from Kazakhstan, and write through the translator.