On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 02:53:49AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 01:10:12AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:39:28PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:48:05PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > > > > > x11/gnome/control-center uses C99 constructs so needs -std=gnu99 for > > > > > base-gcc architectures. > > > > > > ok? > > > > > Not sure, what base-gcc architecture is able to run this anyway? > > > > At a minimum, put a comment please. > > > > Well, none so far, it's never been tried to compile before :) > > > My point is that I don't think anyone would run GNOME on legacy arches. > > I don't see the point in loosing bulk time by building things that will > > never > > be installed anywhere. > > There's able and then will. You might be surprised though. We have folks > compiling and playing games on powerpc. > > Beyond that though, I didn't think that was the only reason we compile > these packages on other architectures.
I regularly try GNOME on powerpc since 15+ years. It never worked properly since we moved to gnome3 years ago. -- Antoine
