On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:11:18 +0200 Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29 2020, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 02:53:49AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 01:10:12AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > >> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:39:28PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > >> > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot > >> > > wrote: > >> > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:48:05PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk > >> > > > wrote: > >> > > > > x11/gnome/control-center uses C99 constructs so needs > >> > > > > -std=gnu99 for base-gcc architectures. > >> > >> > > > > ok? > >> > >> > > > Not sure, what base-gcc architecture is able to run this > >> > > > anyway? At a minimum, put a comment please. > >> > >> > > Well, none so far, it's never been tried to compile before :) > >> > >> > My point is that I don't think anyone would run GNOME on legacy > >> > arches. I don't see the point in loosing bulk time by building > >> > things that will never be installed anywhere. > > >> There's able and then will. You might be surprised though. We have > >> folks compiling and playing games on powerpc. > >> > >> Beyond that though, I didn't think that was the only reason we > >> compile these packages on other architectures. > > > I regularly try GNOME on powerpc since 15+ years. > > It never worked properly since we moved to gnome3 years ago.
*Some* GNOME stuff don't work properly. But it's not *totally* broken [0] :) > If gnome or a subset of its apps doesn't build, then it sure can't be > used and debugged on powerpc. Even if the full gnome desktop isn't > usable, its apps can probably be useful. Instead of discussing on > a case by case basis which app makes sense on what arch, I find it > easier to just fix the build of everything that can be fixed. If > someone cares enough to fix it, obviously. Just like with the rest of > the tree. Please don't make this more painful than it already is. :) > 200% agreed. [0] https://bsd.network/web/statuses/102065676125440442
