On Thu, November 23, 2017 18:13, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22 2017, "Kirill Bychkov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, November 22, 2017 18:06, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 22 2017, "Kirill Bychkov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, November 21, 2017 19:19, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 21 2017, Sol?ne Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Building games/tome4 on powerpc (macppc kernel) fail
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [-----]
>>>>>> ==== Building luajit2 (release) ====
>>>>>> Creating ../obj/Release/luajit2
>>>>>> mkdir -p ../obj/Release/luajit2
>>>>>> Running pre-build commands
>>>>>> [---cut----]
>>>>>> In file included from ../src/luajit2/src/lj_obj.h:14:0,
>>>>>>                  from ../src/luajit2/src/lj_dispatch.c:9:
>>>>>> ../src/luajit2/src/lj_arch.h:321:2: error: #error "No support for
>>>>>> little-endian PowerPC"
>>>>>>  #error "No support for little-endian PowerPC"
>>>>>>   ^
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I propose to remove powerpc as a supported arch
>>>>>
>>>>> Fair proposal.  lang/luajit has a patch to explicitely disable this
>>>>> error message, plus another one for the generated asm.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I don't understand, though, is why luajit thinks that powerpc is
>>>>> little-endian: our powerpc architecture is definitely big-endian.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please try to run ''make test'' in lang/luajit on powerpc?
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> I'm currently trying to build tome4 on macppc. It will take some more time
>>>> on my single core G5 :)
>>>> But... audio/openal uses COMPILER=base-clang ports-clang ports-gcc and
>>>> have
>>>> no chance to be built on powerpc because llvm is marked broken on that
>>>> arch.
>>>> It builds with ports-gcc.
>>>
>>> Yep, this is not nice.
>>>
>>> The problem that kills luajit and tome4 is silly: our sys/_endian.h
>>> header always defines _LITTLE_ENDIAN and _BIG_ENDIAN.  To check
>>> endianness, one should check the value of _BYTE_ORDER.
>>>
>>> (BYTE_ORDER if including <endian.h>)
>>>
>>> I don't know how upstream ended up with this additional check, but it
>>> probably doesn't receive much attention, given that Linux defines
>>> __LITTLE_ENDIAN, not _LITTLE_ENDIAN.  So who's actually building
>>> little-endian powerpc programs?  I think it makes sense to just patch
>>> out the offending test.
>>
>> I like the idea.
>
> Looks like you already have a patch, then. :)

No, U have not :)

>
>>> Then we can take a look at COMPILER ordering.
>>> tome4 is probably not the only affected port...
>>
>> I'm sure there are plenty of them.
>
> (See ports/infrastructure/mk/arch-defines.mk rev. 1.46, ports-clang
> should now be skipped.)
>
>> tome4 builds and starts (currently with a black screen) on my G5 with
>> both patches taken from lang/luajit.
>
> Well, if it's unusable, maybe it's not worth building it.

Well, still black screen on my mac. Not sure if this a hw issue or tome4.
I guess we could mark it as i386 and amd64 only.

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