-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:07:31 -0400 Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Not sure if this is the right list. I see that wine is in powerpc's > not-for-us list in sid: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=powerpc&suite=sid > > Just curious why that is? The latest wine built fine on powerpc in > experimental: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=wine&arch=powerpc > > Thanks, > Mike > > AFAIK Wine doesn't emulate the CPU (not an emulator). The binaries are still run as binaries. And almost all Windows binaries are for x86. So while Wine might be able to compile and run on PowerPC, the Windows programs you would run in Wine would not. - -- Aubrey "There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPztIVAAoJEDqgFXa7UFQO018H/12kMWrr9gCE5/Lc28yaNTgR sIB+zcWY9KstXOyv1x0Hnk4DfpvahkOvUuQC8K0RciJaI5P2SBhOqP0mdXBpxYZX wpnPMwV3LeGzByNYN1krT8vFMrsiwcA7JBrQl6+NTWZXcDNp4+eEYFRPpNKPWEEl g0YVDb2uhtObQWOHUrtKkTjSKTDZqiAp4Cv/ZAB/sjytEl6A8Aul4Z4l9slTC1iq E7JWzS35WUX00e7+Cy5YQFHt1sX8CBZ1JyfiTE4ao4irmDNa19hu30X3/6XCktvf jFeLnKt7+tPt8wDywH2v2hFaetB5hgnnd+83Dpa4iIgFXQ7eiUUTkIg5qFG+le8= =xBJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
