X server strangeness on iMac G5

2014-03-23 Thread James Durham
Hi All, I installed Debian 7.4 PPC on my iMacG5. Here is list of things that I observed in case it helps anyone. Desktop had black background on bottom 1/2 of screen. Windows seemed to not be effected and would open over the black part of the screen. However, I opened emacs and noticed that

Re: Python pyinstaller produces bad binary file

2014-03-23 Thread James Durham
Hi Dave, Well, as much as I know about pyinstaller, it uses the system libraries and packages the .so files in the app, sort of like Mozilla does with browsers. So, since there are only PowerPC libraries available, I was thinking it was a header problem. I did spend some time and managed to fig

Re: Bug#724469: FTBFS on all big-endian architectures

2014-03-23 Thread Adam Conrad
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:33:32AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > > I'd rather not drop s390x from the list of architectures this package > is built for, but this RC bug has now been around for 6 months, and at > some point I'll want to get rid of it. Not fixing a bug isn't the way to get rid of it.

Re: Python pyinstaller produces bad binary file

2014-03-23 Thread David Gosselin
Hi Jim, System V should be ok as that’s just an API at this point. If the original executable were compiled for 386, then changing the header won’t fix it for PowerPC. Do you have the GNU compilers installed? I think that you’ll have to rebuild this package from scratch on your system. Or is

Re: Bug#724469: FTBFS on all big-endian architectures

2014-03-23 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
4 tests but ran 1. Files=16, Tests=299, 835 wallclock secs ( 0.25 usr 0.09 sys + 74.57 cusr 19.01 csys = 93.92 CPU) Result: FAIL make[1]: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»' dh_auto_test: make -j1 test returned exit code 2 make: *** [build-arch] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: de

Re: Bug#724469: FTBFS on all big-endian architectures

2014-03-23 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Lennart Sorensen wrote (22 Mar 2014 12:31:00 GMT) : > Patch works for powerpc and someone else already reported it working > for powerpcspe. Adam Conrad wrote (22 Mar 2014 16:20:23 GMT) : > Works fine for me on powerpc, Thanks a lot for testing! I've uploaded libglib-object-introspection-pe