Re: wine considered not-for-us on powerpc
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:07:31 -0400
Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not sure if this is the right list. I see that wine is in powerpc's
> not-for-us list in sid:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=powerpc&suite=sid
>
> Just curious why that is? The latest wine built fine on powerpc in
> experimental:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=wine&arch=powerpc
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
AFAIK Wine doesn't emulate the CPU (not an emulator). The binaries are
still run as binaries. And almost all Windows binaries are for x86. So
while Wine might be able to compile and run on PowerPC, the Windows
programs you would run in Wine would not.
- --
Aubrey
"There are two types of people in the world: those who
can extrapolate from incomplete data."
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