On Sun, 2024-10-27 at 00:04 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > That seems to imply that someone requires that those packages are ported. > > Yes, we do. Rust especially is killing the entire FOSS ecosystem.
Could we leave out politics out of this discussion, please? > These all are conditio sine qua nōn when it comes to continuing > Linux/m68k, as a whole. Exactly. > > Absent the right conditions, perhaps it is best focus limited porter and > > developer effort on patching only those packages that are really required. > > I tried my hand at Qt5. About 20 man-hours in I essentially gave up, > and that was without even getting to something I could put to a > compile and runtime test. Yep, that's exactly my experience as well while building with 32-bit alignment just made it work. > “Natural” alignment of data types has essentially become a requirement > these days, and m68k is the only true outlyer (i386 could in theory, but > the Unix psABI designers were sensible enough to not do it). Agreed. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
