[Mono-dev] 2.10~rc1 and dropped architectures

[Jo Shields]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 11:31 -0600, Steven Munroe wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 23:54 +0000, Jo Shields wrote:
> > > === SPARC ===
> > > 
> > > On SPARC, we fail to build fully - the runtime explodes with a SIGSEGV
> > > whilst compiling gacutil.exe. Log:
> > > http://retro.apebox.org/mono210/buildlog.sparc
> > > 
> > > SPARC is one of the most popular "minority" architectures in Debian, 
> > > and we would hate to lose it, especially when SPARC/Solaris is
> > > actively maintained in Mono and isn't that different.
> > 
> > So, ready for some fun?
> > 
> > I applied ca0ededdc63e7af50a8b1548975cd, which Zoltan suggested on
> > #monodev would help matters on SPARC.
> > 
> > It stopped the SEGV.
> > 
> > However, the build now fails in an IDENTICAL manner to PowerPC:
> > 
> > make[9]: Entering directory
> > `/home/directhex/mono/mcs/class/Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter'
> > MCS     [net_2_0] Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter.dll
> > Couldn't sign the
> > assembly ../../class/lib/net_2_0/tmp/Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter.dll with this key pair.
> > make[9]: ***
> > [../../class/lib/net_2_0/tmp/Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter.dll]
> > Error 1
> > 
> > So I get the feeling there's a common issue here
> 
> Is this still an issue? Seems likely an endian issue in key handling ...
> 
> Do you need another pair of hands for PPC?

Looks like these problems with sparc/ppc were fixed between 2.10~rc1 and
2.10~rc2