Fw: Atari builds

Hi guys,

although I don't use Netsurf and have no time to dig in, just out of curiosity, what do you mean by this:

On 06/02/2017 12:25, Vincent Sanders wrote:

> atari - The atari frontend is built for m68k and coldfire variants  >          using a variant of the netsurf cross compliation  >          toolchain/sdk. No serious updates have been made to this  >          toolchain in some time and it has become a burden.  >  >         Unless this is addressed before the next developer weekend the  >          frontend will be disabled in the CI and subsequently code  >          removed.

There's nothing wrong with our gcc, it's still 4.6.4 and every other Atari software developer uses it. It's old, yes, but there are some technical obstacles to move beyond that version (although this may be no longer the case, see http://d-bug.mooo.com/beyondbrown/post/gcc-6/).

So what exactly burdens you? Is your new code failing to compile on 4.6.4?

Regards,

Miro

Hello,

did somebody recognize the E-Mail below? It was in reply to the wrong
subject.

Greets,
Ole


Beginn der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:

Datum: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:13:39 +1000
Von: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>
An: netsurf-dev@netsurf-browser.org
Betreff: Atari builds


Hi guys,

although I don't use Netsurf and have no time to dig in, just out of
curiosity, what do you mean by this:

On 06/02/2017 12:25, Vincent Sanders wrote:

>* atari - The atari frontend is built for m68k and coldfire variants
*>* using a variant of the netsurf cross compliation
*>* toolchain/sdk. No serious updates have been made to this
*>* toolchain in some time and it has become a burden.
*>>* Unless this is addressed before the next developer weekend
the *>* frontend will be disabled in the CI and subsequently
code *>* removed.*

There's nothing wrong with our gcc, it's still 4.6.4 and every other
Atari software developer uses it. It's old, yes, but there are some
technical obstacles to move beyond that version (although this may be
no longer the case, see http://d-bug.mooo.com/beyondbrown/post/gcc-6/).

So what exactly burdens you? Is your new code failing to compile on
4.6.4?

Regards,
Miro