compiling drip for ppc?

doppler · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Austin, TX

drip would not compile for me, and i strongly suspect it's due to native x86 assembly code:

/tmp/ccyP1REX.s:289: Error: Unrecognized opcode: 'emms'
/tmp/ccyP1REX.s:493: Error: Unrecognized opcode: 'emms'

seems there were one or two other packages that would not compile for ppc due to assembly language problems, too. maybe these packages should not be a part of the ports offered for gentoo/ppc or at least be masked until they're fixed?

so my two questions are: 1) is it usually possible to make minor tweaks in x86 assembly to make it work on ppc? and 2) do all versions of gentoo (x86/ppc/sparc) sources come from the same place? it seems so from what i can tell.

-doppler

soopurman · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

AFAIK, x86 and PPC ebuilds used to be on seperate portage trees, but these have since been merged into one common tree.
i also could not compile svgalib, aparently for the same, or at least a very similar, reason . . .

- mike
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Gerk · Retired Dev Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435

yep, used to be seperate, now a single tree....

svgalib is known to not currently work with ppc from the vendor either, I'll have to check that to make sure it's masked as well.

Gerk

trance · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 9:48 pm Post subject: failed PPC ebuilds

Hi guys, if something fails for you, could you do us all a huge favor, and check to see if it has an open PPC bug in bugs.gentoo.org, and if not, please open one up?

One of the things we're working on is helping make the ppc port better by tracking and fixing as many bugs as we possibly can, but we can't find them all, so if you do find one, please let us know =)

Thanks

trance