Building gcc6 for powerpc64

Hi,

I want to use an external toolchain, because I am unable to build the toolchain (it core dumps). Following instructions from: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ExternalToolchain it says to install "pkg install powerpc64-gcc6". However there no prebuilt binaries for my system (X5000). I tried compile /usr/ports/devel/FreeBSD-gcc6. It built for aarch64 and not powerpc64.

How do I build for powerpc64?

Also, I have cputype?=e5500 in my make.conf.

Thank you!

SteveG
 
PowerPC64 packages should be available. But this particular package may be missing if it had build errors on the package clusters.

Edit: Looking through http://pkg-status.freebsd.org I see the last PowerPC64 packages were built in 2021, more than a year ago. The actual package build server doesn't seem to exist anymore. This may be due to failing hardware, but I'm not sure if that's the case here.
 
It would need to be compile for the e5500 processor without altivec. Is there a way that I can build powerpc64-gcc6 myself?
 
I'm not 100% sure but it looks like it's a flavor of lang/gcc6. So I would try to build that. It's deprecated though, it's a pretty old version of GCC.
 
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