how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc?

[Julio Merino]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:50 PM Brandon Bergren <bdragon at freebsd.org> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, at 8:39 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
> >
> > Oh, that's good to know. I might have observed it in one of the ALPHAs
> > given that I tried this last month.
> >
> > Are there any more-recent images available with the fix? I checked the
> > snapshots directory but couldn't see any. And attempting to buildworld
> > from 12 results in:
>
> -BETA2 is in the process of being built by the release engineering team
> and should be out within the next 24 hours.
>

Excellent; thanks.

> which I'm guessing this is because of the ancient gcc 4.2... so what's
> > the magic to rebuild 13, if possible?
>
> The magic is undocumented because it's only been accomplished natively by
> me and one other person, and you end up with a damaged system even when you
> do accomplish it. It's *much* more straightforward to install from prebuilt
> bits.
>

What kind of brokenness?

I noticed that my local patch over stable/12 to fix
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252720 still applies to
stable/13, so I'm wondering if that's what you are referring to.

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