Hello! On 9/26/21 14:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 ! > The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up. > > The bad news is lots of applications crash and they all have one thing in > common, libffi. > > > So e.g. a build of ArcticFox fails: > multix@PPC970FX:~/code/Arctic-Fox$ ./mach build > /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in > scripts instead. > Illegal instruction
Did you verify that downgrading the libffi package fixes the problem? If yes, you may file an upstream bug here [1]. The powerpc-related changes I can see at first glance are these [2]. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/libffi/libffi > [2] > https://github.com/libffi/libffi/search?o=desc&q=powerpc&s=author-date&type=commits -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
