Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] my list of ~ppc-ebuilds that work on my system

Oops, replied to you off list by mistake.  I'll assume you don't mind
your reply on the list.

Actually, zinf is a strange one.  It's the only way I know of 
to download complete albums from emusic.com, and that part of it
works.  So I wouldn't put it -ppc.

I guess I like the idea of marking anything that builds
and at least starts up as ~ppc.  Not sure how others feel.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:11:22PM +0100, Stephan van Maris wrote:
> Didn't think about that one ... in this case, zinf should be marked 'x86' and
> '~ppc' or even '-ppc', considering it's mainly an audioplayer and therefore
> useless on ppc if it crashes on play ;)
>
> But still, in most cases the ppc-version is as stable as the x86-ebuild. So
> wouldn't it be much easier to mark everything ~ppc, iron out the stuff that
> doesn't work and gradually shift it all to ppc (stable)?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stephan van Maris
>
> On Tuesday 25 March 2003 16:37, you wrote:
> > Byte ordering problems can lead to things that build but don't work on ppc
> > that work fine on x86.  zinf, for instance builds fine for me on ppc, but
> > can only be used to download. It will crash when trying to play music.  I
> > haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing it doesn't have appropriate calls
> > to change from little endian to big endian.  Or who knows, maybe there's
> > some other problem, but you can get the endian thing without assembly.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:07:07AM +0100, Stephan van Maris wrote:
> > > Hi Pylon,
> >
> > ..
> >
> > > In my experience, if it builds on ppc and it's stable on x86, why
> > > shouldn't it be stable on ppc? The only times I had ebuilds fail is when
> > > it contains x86-only asm-code, in which case it should be marked '-ppc'
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
>
>

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