[X2Go-Dev] Fwd: Re: [X2Go-User] Client for PowerPC Macs ?

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Mihai,

On Di 17 Apr 2012 01:12:11 CEST Mihai Moldovan wrote:

>
>> ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht von mark.dammer at googlemail.com -----
>>      Datum: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:58:12 +0100
>>        Von: Mark Dammer <mark.dammer at googlemail.com>
>>    Betreff: Re: [X2Go-User] Client for PowerPC Macs ?
>>         An: x2go-user at lists.berlios.de
>>
>> [...]
>> I just tried it on a G4 running 10.4 "Tiger".
>
> Currently x2oclient.app supports Mac OS X 10.5 and up on ppc, x86 and x86_64.
> Whilst I could rebuild basing stuff on the 10.4 SDK, I can't test any build
> myself and it may require code changes to work.
> This would also mean a downgrade from GCC 4.2 to GCC 4.0... gnargh. At least
> x2go is not using C++11 features...
>
>
>> Doing some research on the net I found that it looks that the  
>> problem is that
>> the GCC stack smashing protector is not supported under "Tiger" and that the
>> package should be built without the  -fstack-protector-all option.
>
> Nah. Thanks for searching around, but I know how to fix this.
>
>
> I'll look into that and get back.

As you are the one who gives his time to the Mac builds currently, it  
is fully ok to say: No, we will not support old Mac OS versions on old  
PPC hardware. Esp. if you cannot test the build, I guess it does not  
make much sense giving time and effort for this backporting project.

My 2¢,
Mike

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