[llvm-dev] PowerPC LLVM support much appreciated

[James Y Knight via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:07 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> I fully understand the reasoning and I absolutely agree with you. However,
> the
> the actual changes required to get LLVM to build on Darwin/PPC seem to be
> rather
> minimal, given when we ignore the additional tests which is why I don't
> think
> that Darwin/PPC would actually be such a maintenance burden.
>
> It would be different if there was no support for either Darwin or PPC at
> all, but
> that's not the case. It's more a question of tying to pieces of string
> together
> which are already there.


I think there was a *lot* more behavior specific to the intersection of
Darwin+PPC (not applicable to other PPC OSes or other Darwin
architectures), than one might think (and than has been mentioned on this
thread so far). Fortunately, I don't recall details -- but I rather doubt
it'll be such a trivial change to resurrect Darwin PPC support.

Might I suggest installing Linux on old Mac PPC hardware, instead? MacOS
10.5 was the last release able to run on PPC, and hasn't been updated in 12
years.
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