PowerPC support.

We definitely used to have the linux ppc nightly builds.  We
had them 
from at least 4/2005 until late 2005.  They were still
available as 
nightly builds when we put out RealPlayer 10.0.6 in 9/2005. 
Does that 
help narrow it down?

- Donya

Jonathan Finnecy wrote:
> To my knowledge (and searching thru diffs of our
configs) there has never been such a
> platform in the build farm.
> 
> We have had:
> 
> macos-powerpc (which is defunct according to Bob Clark)
> 
> and at one point we had (but this was removed ~
07/2004):
> 
> aix-4.3-powerpc
> 
> 
> -jpf
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daniel Yek [mailto:dyekreal.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 7:52 PM
>> To: Donya Shirzad; Jonathan Finnecy
>> Cc: player-devhelixcommunity.org; David Woodhouse
>> Subject: Re: [Player-dev] PowerPC support.
>>
>> I haven't built for PPC before. From the
configuration files, I could tell
>> that the SYSTEM_ID should be
linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-powerpc. I couldn't find
>> such a platform setting in the build farm though.
Maybe Jonathan knows more
>> about this?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Yek
>>
>>
>> At 10:36 AM 12/3/2006, Donya Shirzad wrote:
>>> Daniel -
>>>
>>> Can we kick off a quick build of PPC for the
Real and Helix Bingo and
>>> Balto players to see if there are any build
errors?  That'll give us an
>>> idea of where we stand with it.  I seem to
recall this was dropped from
>>> the nightly builds due to a lack of maintainer.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - Donya
>>>
>>>> I've just noticed that the nightly builds
of RealPlayer for PowerPC are
>>>> missing. Not only that, but the source
tarball no longer contains the
>>>> binary libraries with the codecs.
>>>>
>>>> There's a version of RealPlayer 10.0.5
available on the download page,
>>>> but there _were_ newer versions than that
-- I have a 10.0.6 build 1253
>>>> binary lying around in my home directory,
for example.
>>>>
>>>> What happened? Were there actually problems
building on PowerPC? Fedora
>>>> currently ships HelixPlayer 1.0.7 on
PowerPC, and 1.0.8 builds
>>>> flawlessly too (and seems unable to play
anything I ask it to, but I
>>>> think that's normal even on i386).
>>>>
>>>> How can we get the PowerPC libraries back
into the RealPlayer "source"
>>>> tarball, and PowerPC back into the nightly
builds?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> dwmw2
>>>>
> 
> 

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