Re: GNOME 2.2 summary 22/06/2003
Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de> writes:
> Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> writes:
[...]
>> For other package like gnome-applets, gnome-terminal, gcc for m68k is
>> broken and gconftool-2 segfault, then libraries packages (libgnomeui)
>> can't be installed and thus packages can't be build.
>
> I really wonder, who on earth runs current heavyweight apps like Gnome
> 2.2, Mozilla or KDE on a ten year old mac box. I'd assume that this is
> virtually impossible. Well, I see that more and more new arches are
> being added to Debian all the time. At the same time I wonder if it
> would be thinkable to phase out an arch if it is clearly obsolete,
> i.e. if it will not be able to run most apps from a current Debian
> distribution with acceptable performance.
As I'm an old Atari user, m68k isn't only mac, but Amiga with 68060 @ 60
Mhz, or Atari with the same processor, and these machines can run GNOME
1.x without problems when my Atari falcon with an 68030 @ 16 Mzh was
unable to run X.
[...]
> At the same time it looks like m68k currently breaks a lot of Gnome
> related stuff. That's a PITA, given that the current 1.4/2.2 mixture
> in testing is virtually unusable.
For now the problem is that gcc 3.3 is broken. We only need to wait for
a better gcc or change the debian/rules to use gcc 3.2 or gcc 2.95
Christian
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