Call for Legacy Support Testing

[Sergey Fedorov]

Ok, I will run tests and update you soon.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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