On Tue, 5 May 2015 14:49:47 -0400, drh wrote:

> Fossil no longer compiles on my 15-year-old PPC iBook running MacOS
> 10.2.  :-(  I use that machine for testing software on a 32-bit
> big-endian processor.
>
> The problem seems to be a bug in the compiler.  It is unable to deal
> with the latest sqlite3.c amalgamation.  If I overwrite sqlite3.c with
> the "split amalgamation"
> (https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html#amal32k) then Fossil
> compiles and builds just fine.
>
> I'm genuinely conflicted about whether or not I should start using the
> split amalgamation in Fossil or just stay with the single-file
> amalgamation and patch the code whenever I need to compile on a
> 15-year-old mac....

Technically and for the build process, it's very close to the
single-file amalgamation and still much, much better than
importing the whole bunch of sqlite source file.
I wonder how many people would even notice the difference.
So, I wouldn't mind the spilt amalgamation at all.
-- 
Groet,
Kees
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