I can test whatever is needed, provided it is something specific enough and can be done on macOS. (Verifying the build itself is trivial.)
gettext and coreutils were certainly working on macOS ppc64, otherwise I would have a lot of stuff broken :) http://macos-powerpc.org/packages_ppc64 (not many ports there and not too up-to-date, since I prioritize 10.6, where only 32-bit ppc is supported, but nevertheless, gettext/coreutils dependents are there). On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote: > Sergey Fedorov wrote: > > macOS 10.5 supports building and running ppc64 binaries. > > Oh, indeed: These were the so-called "PowerPC G5" machines. [1] > > But Gnulib has never been tested on such machines. It has been tested > on "ibook G4" hardware and on x86_64 machines with CC="gcc -arch ppc". > Therefore we don't know, and probably will never know, how to write > correct, working code for Mac OS X 10.5 / powerpc64. (Such hardware > was very expensive at the time [2] and is museumware by now.) > > Bruno > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_970 > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5 > > > >
