On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:16:10AM +0100, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:22:05PM -0800, Ryan Freeman wrote: > > Hello ports@, > > > > It's that time again, Simon has emailed me notification of > > the newest chocolate-doom release. As there has been previous > > discussion from the 1.2.1->1.4.0 release, here are a few quick > > notes to refresh some memories: > > > > Edd Barrett notified me of an issue with sparc64. the result > > of discussions about that matter is here: (from the NEWS file > > in the chocolate-doom archive) > > > > 71 * The zone memory system now aligns allocated memory to 8-byte > > 72 boundaries on 64-bit systems, which may fix crashes on systems > > 73 such as sparc64 (thanks Ryan Freeman and Edd Barrett). > > > > Alexander Hall sent me a small patch to fix a little typo > > changing CONFIGURE_ARGS+ = to CONFIGURE_ARGS += > > > > I don't yet have official word from Edd or anyone else on sparc64 > > systems if the patch introduced for 8-byte memory alignment showed > > help, so here is another chance to verify that i hope :) > > > > tested builds packages and runs flawless on i386. > > > > -ryan > I got this warning on sparc64 when building: > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../opl -I../textscreen -I../pcsound -O2 -g > -Wall -O2 -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 > -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -DXTHREADS -MT i_main.o -MD -MP -MF > .deps/i_main.Tpo -c -o i_main.o i_main.c > i_main.c:117:2: warning: #warning No known way to set processor affinity on > this platform. > i_main.c:118:2: warning: #warning You may experience crashes due to SDL_mixer. > > and the warning is repeated at launch, though it appears to play fine (albeit > a > tad slow) with X11 forwarding ;-) >
that error actually appears on i386 as well, but its a known sdl_mixer bug (apparently). that being said, i'm not sure that it affects our sdl_mixer, and furthermore i've never actually had the game crash. :) -ryan > -- > Cheers, > Jasper > > "Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them." >
