Call for Legacy Support Testing

[Fred Wright]

The latest legacy-support-devel (v20250530) is a release candidate for the 
new version, so it would be useful to get some broader testing.  The most 
significant changes are the complete rewrite of all the clock functions 
for better speed, accuracy, and compatibility.

Since there are some cases where the architecture is relevant, and my G5 
is inoperative, it would be useful if someone could test on a G5, 
preferably running 10.5.  That's just a matter of running "port test 
legacy-support-devel" while targeting ppc64 as the architecture.  Since 
build_arch is usually set to ppc rather than ppc64 on a G5 (for good 
reason), this would require either overriding build_arch on the command 
line or testing +universal (provided that universal_archs includes ppc64). 
Since the latter is also unlikely, the first approach is probably the most 
convenient.

An example of doing this on a G4, with the expected obvious failure, is:

MacMini:~ fw$ sudo port test legacy-support-devel build_arch=ppc64
--->  Fetching distfiles for legacy-support-devel
--->  Verifying checksums for legacy-support-devel
--->  Extracting legacy-support-devel
--->  Configuring legacy-support-devel
--->  Building legacy-support-devel
--->  Staging legacy-support-devel into destroot
--->  Testing legacy-support-devel
Error: Failed to test legacy-support-devel: command execution failed
[...]

On a G5 the above should work, and take under a minute.

Fred Wright