Call for Legacy Support Testing

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Fred,

Fred Wright 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. 

would it be of interest on 10.5 x86-64 too?
I could also on G4 and regular x86. No G5 though.

Riccardo