Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:22
Message-Id: 1258738827.25889.31.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi by Fabian Groffen
1 On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 18:34 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 06-10-2009 08:34:14 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > > yeah, but back then it didn't rm -Rf internal/libffi
4 > >
5 > > The Modules/_ctypes/libffi is the same as the external version. So no,
6 > > it won't compile.
7 >
8 > We've been asked to file bug about these issues with upstream libffi, so
9 > could you please paste a bunch of compilation errors somewhere?
10
11 libffi supports m68k, but uses specific cacheflush syscalls that
12 FreeMiNT doesn't support. So it needs a specific FreeMiNT patch.
13
14 Additionally, it seems that 68020 or higher is required, whereas some of
15 our targets in FreeMiNT are 68000 processors. So some of the m68k
16 assembly code needs re-writing for this.
17
18 Alan.