Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] >> For other package like gnome-applets, gnome-terminal, gcc for m68k is >> broken and gconftool-2 segfault, then libraries packages (libgnomeui) >> can't be installed and thus packages can't be build. > > I really wonder, who on earth runs current heavyweight apps like Gnome > 2.2, Mozilla or KDE on a ten year old mac box. I'd assume that this is > virtually impossible. Well, I see that more and more new arches are > being added to Debian all the time. At the same time I wonder if it > would be thinkable to phase out an arch if it is clearly obsolete, > i.e. if it will not be able to run most apps from a current Debian > distribution with acceptable performance. As I'm an old Atari user, m68k isn't only mac, but Amiga with 68060 @ 60 Mhz, or Atari with the same processor, and these machines can run GNOME 1.x without problems when my Atari falcon with an 68030 @ 16 Mzh was unable to run X. [...] > At the same time it looks like m68k currently breaks a lot of Gnome > related stuff. That's a PITA, given that the current 1.4/2.2 mixture > in testing is virtually unusable. For now the problem is that gcc 3.3 is broken. We only need to wait for a better gcc or change the debian/rules to use gcc 3.2 or gcc 2.95 Christian
