Hi Tomas, hi all others I got an reply/note from upstream author of tuxcmd (Tomáš Bžatek) on this issue:
> yes, PowerPC port is currently broken. FreePascal has very bad support for > different endianity, mostly from the memory management point of view. I had > partial success some time ago on an old iBook G3 though, no plugins. > > FreePascal internally allocates memory from heap (most probably), but from > different memory area than malloc does. It also adds few bytes control > information and returns pointer with offset of few bytes, which obviously > cannot be used with standard libc allocator calls. I had no luck with FPC > cmem unit either which basically uses malloc, things went even worse. > > Spending so much time on fixing things which are broken from the beginning > is unproductive and there are different, more important areas which I want > to focus on first. Tux Commander could use complete rewrite to pure C, but > that's fulltime work for several months. Volunteers are welcome of course. > [...] > > Forgot to mention that I intentionally disabled PPC archs in the Fedora > package. I can only support i386 and x86_64 at the moment. For the moment until there are some improvements on this, I think the only thing is to disable build on all big endian archs, and set Architecture apropriately. Kind regards Salvatore
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