FreeBSD PPC ports

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kr651129

I was just given an old Apple G5 PPC that I was planning on running Leopard on. Since PPC is no longer supported by Apple and new applications will be hard to come by I just decided to install FreeBSD PPC. If something isn't available as a package for PPC on FreeBSD I'd assume that compiling it from the ports tree should work, am I correct in this assumption? Additionally, does anyone know how long the foundation plans on continuing work on the PPC architecture?

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kr651129 said:
If something isn't available as a package for PPC on FreeBSD I'd assume that compiling it from the ports tree should work, am I correct in this assumption?
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Unless that port is marked for i386 or amd64 only. But for most ports, yes, that should work.
 
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