On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-10-28 at 15:51 +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > > You talk about "applications ... being written". Well, two days ago I > > mentioned several groups of applications: (1) core packages that > > accept alignment patches, (2) packages whose developers shouldn't > > worry about small systems anyway, and (3) packags I am concerned about > > i.e. the ones actually required by Debian/m68k users (which will > > presumably lead to disto bug reports, if they didn't already -- hence > > my question about bug reports which remains unanswered). > > As I said before, it's about (transitive) build dependencies and the > fact that more and more packages are being rewritten in Rust. > > Here is the current top of the list of packages that won't build on m68k > because of the 2-byte alignment issue: > > 2814 cargo:m68k > 900 ghc:m68k > 261 gccgo-14:m68k > 241 libqt5core5a:m68k > 181 architecture-is-64-bit:m68k > 117 libglib2.0-0:m68k > 81 libcompiler-libs-ocaml-dev-0a396:m68k > 81 golang-go:m68k > 71 wx3.2-headers:m68k > 57 qt6-base-dev:m68k > 57 python3:m68k > 46 libamd2:m68k > > Are you going to fix these for me? > Are you the only user? Seriously though, thanks for providing data. Now, if you would link to the upstream refusals for CPython and golang, I'll do what I can to help.
