From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: gcc-4.6.3, was Re: Debian on mac68k Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:50:14 +1300 Message-ID: References: <574C132F.3070404@abbuc.de> <574C15C2.90908@abbuc.de> <574C1792.4030403@abbuc.de> <57557722.5040808@yahoo.com> <5810FA8D.4060702@yahoo.com> <58114F74.40408@yahoo.com> <5811F96F.3090602@yahoo.com> <58121D46.8060506@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f175.google.com ([209.85.192.175]:35601 "EHLO mail-pf0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751226AbcKIGuc (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2016 01:50:32 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f175.google.com with SMTP id i88so121253503pfk.2 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:50:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Finn Thain , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Hi Finn, >> so I think there is little incentive to use these old compilers. > > It is useful for upstream developers to have distro-neutral tools. > Ideally, we could use the kernel.org compiler as a "reference compiler". > For automated builds, it seems to be that already. But no-one boots those > binaries AFAIK. Not for Mac, but Geert usually boots kernels using ARAnyM. Pretty basic, for sure, but it's been good enough so have something to work from. Having something like ARAnyM for Mac or Amiga would increase coverage, but the varied and quirky Mac hardware out there makes that almost pointless again. Cheers, Michael