Re: [base-gcc/sparc64] Fix build for x11/gnome/control-center

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 02:53:49AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 01:10:12AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:39:28PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:48:05PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > > > > x11/gnome/control-center uses C99 constructs so needs -std=gnu99 for
> > > > > base-gcc architectures.
>
> > > > > ok?
>
> > > > Not sure, what base-gcc architecture is able to run this anyway?
> > > > At a minimum, put a comment please.
>
> > > Well, none so far, it's never been tried to compile before :)
>
> > My point is that I don't think anyone would run GNOME on legacy arches.
> > I don't see the point in loosing bulk time by building things that will never
> > be installed anywhere.
>
> There's able and then will. You might be surprised though. We have folks
> compiling and playing games on powerpc.
>
> Beyond that though, I didn't think that was the only reason we compile
> these packages on other architectures.

I regularly try GNOME on powerpc since 15+ years.
It never worked properly since we moved to gnome3 years ago.

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Antoine