It would be not so nice to lost support for products like the Pegasos II which is a 32bit G4 device. :(
> Am 24.08.2015 um 23:49 schrieb Lennart Sorensen > <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>: > > 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 >
