On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:11:18 +0200
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29 2020, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org> wrote:
> > 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.
*Some* GNOME stuff don't work properly.
But it's not *totally* broken [0] :)
> If gnome or a subset of its apps doesn't build, then it sure can't be
> used and debugged on powerpc. Even if the full gnome desktop isn't
> usable, its apps can probably be useful. Instead of discussing on
> a case by case basis which app makes sense on what arch, I find it
> easier to just fix the build of everything that can be fixed. If
> someone cares enough to fix it, obviously. Just like with the rest of
> the tree. Please don't make this more painful than it already is. :)
>
200% agreed.
[0] https://bsd.network/web/statuses/102065676125440442
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