Delu83 wrote:Really?
Yeah, really.
Delu83 wrote:I just posted because many months nothing happened, maybe sharing more on what's broken exactly would help as it seems if it's all on Vinterstum he has either no time or is not available at this time. With more information maybe someone else could help!?
gcc 4.9 seems to be broken with -mlongcall on PPC. If you're volunteering to fix that, then please do.
In this case, it's not Vinterstum we're waiting on, it's me. I haven't had time to reply to him. It's hard to believe, but we actually have lives outside of ScummVM (shocking!). I actually end up spending a much smaller amount of time on it as I'd like to.
Delu83 wrote:There are still ppl out there keeping up to date on osx ppc build chains and the increasing difficulty to keep them operating and whatnot, eg. Cameron Kaiser (tenfourbird), Tobias Netzel (leopard webkit), or even kernel-devs on the debian ppc mailing lists.
That's good for them. If they have one that can build ScummVM with -mlongcall and all engines and libraries. And probably other things need -mlongcall to get them to work properly too. Like libgcc. It's a huge undertaking to fix this. Or, if you want to push it onto gcc, we need proof that it's broken, which is also a lot of work. And then you'd just be waiting for them instead of me/Vinterstum.
Delu83 wrote:No offence but somehow it often seems ppl in the know on various open source projects don't even try communicating anymore when it comes to certain issues out of their focus. So months later it's rather shoot the messenger? Seems unfair and diametrically opposed to a greater good and what I'd like to imagine is the desirable outcome!?
No offense, but nagging us gets you nowhere and it only irritates us (or at least me -- I can't really speak for anyone else). In fact, when pushed, I'm generally less likely to want to spend time doing something. This is my spare time project, not my career.
If you want to make a change, do it instead of asking if it has already happened. Of course, you didn't actually need me to tell you any of this -- you could have checked the buildbot which you're clearly aware of (or you wouldn't have posted the link).
This is for a 10+ year old system. I'd love to support it still. But that doesn't change that I only have a finite amount of time to work on a billions I'd like to do.
So, yeah, have patience. Or fix it yourself. You can't have it any other way.
