Just an update, I can build tomboy-ng fine on ppc64le using the current
FPC and Lazarus direct from the FPC.
I have pushed a new release of tomboy-ng up to my sponsor, Philipp and
it has pie hardening turned off for ppc64le, something I found
necessary and believe is worthy of further
Topic : Lazarus on a ppc64el
Hi Paul, Abou. Thats great timing, I deleted my PPC image about a week
ago to save some diskspace. :-)
I was initially approached to help get tomboy-ng built on ppc64el and,
as an old IBM Power user I thought that would be fun. But I quickly
found I would need some
Hi David,
I was just pointed to this bug.
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 10:21:43 +1000 David Bannon
wrote:
[...]
> then I built Lazarus from source (my prefered model) and found more
> issues that relate, I think, to LCL, particularly under Qt5. So, in my
> very uneducated opinion, Lazarus is not yet
Topic : tomboy-ng not working on ppc64el
Frédéric, I have now done some testing using a more recent version of
qemu and results are somewhat mixed. My plan was to install the Debian
versions of FPC and Lazarus, build my app and run it under the IDE
debugger. However, I encountered several
Issue : tomboy-ng not building on ppc64el
Frédéric, I don't think I will be able to do anything about this until I
get home, some time after Easter.
My laptop has U18.04 on it, that has offered me QEMU 2.11.1 and it seems
quite unhappy with ppc64le. There are known issues that limit me to
using
Hi Davo,
answering quickly as I see you're active right now.
But I'll come back on Monday on your questions in more details because they
deserve answers, but I don't have much time this weekend, so going straight
to the point for now.
March 27, 2021 7:20 AM, "David Bannon" wrote:
> OK, you are
OK, you are way ahead of me Frédéric, please disregard my previous response.
Great that your patch works, really cool. And thanks ! However, do you
mind if I query something ? I don't quite see why you call the -
+if [ "$CPU" = "powerpc64le" ]; then
+ CPU="powerpc64"
+fi
AFTER the line -
Here is a patch proposal which fixes the build.
The patch header details the issue and the possible workaround.
Regards,
F.
--- a/buildit.bash
+++ b/buildit.bash
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@
CPU="i386"
fi
TARGET="$CPU-$OS"
+if [ "$CPU" = "powerpc64le" ]; then
+CPU="powerpc64"
+fi
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