Re: Potential Mono removal from 32-bit big endian PowerPC in next upload
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:59:19AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> Dear PPC porter people,
>
> The major Mono version pending in experimental fixes GCC5 and fixes
> reproducible builds and a dozen other bugs, so I don't want to delay it.
>
> It doesn't build on PowerPC any more, and nobody upstream is working on it.
>
> We recently introduced ppc64el, which is working, but there's nobody who
> cares about 32-bit BE - the community contributor who gave us our ppc64el
> port is working on ppc64, but simply isn't interested in 32-bit.
>
> I've fixed up the build such that there is a single failure, a single
> assert, still breaking the build (and about 31 of the tests in the runtime
> test suite): https://gist.githubusercontent.com/directhex/f890350006e72be706af/raw/2bae2f1ea487f4f6c6f7d5ccb256feda35627c28/assert
>
> This state of the art (which contains patches beyond what is in
> Experimental) is at https://github.com/directhex/mono-1/tree/ppc32
>
> I've hit the limits of my ability to debug and fix. I need someone familiar
> with PPC porting to tell me what magic switch to flip to repair it, within a
> short period of time - otherwise I'll be foced to simply mark 32-bit BE
> powerpc as a dead arch & stop trying to support it in Mono and its 100
> related packages.
I am having no luck building it so far. It says it needs mcs 3.8 or
higher and of course only 3.2 is available until the new one is built.
--
Len Sorensen
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