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Re: Stupid libatomic dependencies



On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 11:23:43PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> ppc doesn't have a 64-bit hardware CAS instruction unlike i586.
> This doesn't depend on the whole GCC, just libatomic.so.
> This library is not a heavy dependency. It is released as part
> of the GCC distfile but that is a one time download.

Yeah, it was the download that took ages - now picking my own nose
and back to pushing myself to fix the "need to run this machine in 32bit
bridge mode". A macppc64 kernel would also give me a lot more usabel RAM.

Sorry for the noise.

Martin


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