On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 08:45 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > I don't think it's actually really any difficult. > > Indeed, thank goodness it is so trivially easy to build things on debian. > I have build -- many things now. For one recent impressive one, the 64 bit > PPC version Lazarus has a longstanding crashing error, but the 32 bit version, > built from source and installed on 64 bit PPC, works just fine.
Did you report the Lazarus issue upstream? The Free Pascal developers are usually very interested in bug reports even for the less common targets. > > > I also don't remember seeing any questions regarding that here, but my > > memory might > > fail me here. > > I can't expect you to remember everything that goes on here on this list, > certainly. > > And I didn't bring it up again, so it likely drifted past like a cloud... > > The issue was noted here (long time ago now): > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/11/msg00055.html >From that message: > I did this: > > $ apt-get build-dep firefox > $ apt source firefox > $ apt install python-is-python3 > $ cd firefox-120.0 > $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc I would suggest building the binary-arch target only, i.e.: $ dpkg-buildpackage -B Calling "dpkg-buildpackage" without providing the build type defaults to a full build which includes arch-all and the source packages which you don't really need. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
