On Tue, 20 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 07:59 +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Mon, 19 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > > > > My argument is that Linux/m68k is a pure hobbyist project and anyone > > > involved can deal with the changes coming from the alignment change. > > > > > > > If hobbyists can deal with ABI breakage, they can certainly deal with the > > longstanding lack of fancy toolchains and toolkits*. > > Being able to build the build dependencies of cmake or parts of GCC such > as gccgo is not something I would consider "fancy". Qt is an optional dependency of cmake, subject to USE=gui on Gentoo, as it should be. If that dep is required by Debian, that's a distro problem, not an ABI problem. As for gccgo, has that ever worked on m68k? > Furthermore, more and more packages are being ported to Rust which means > m68k will either die a long death or have to switch to 4 bytes > alignment. > Other language runtimes work fine on the m68k ABI. Why is Rust special?
