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Rockbox Utility on Linux

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LeoTheLion89:
I run Ubuntu 12.04 on my PowerMac G4. Is there a version of Rockbox Utility that will work on PPC Linux? The fact the Rockbox Utility works on PowerPC Mac and Work on Linux how come there is not a combined PPC code in the Linux Utility so that Rockbox Utility will run in PPC Linux? The fact the Linux and OS X are both UNIX dont see how its not possible.

[Saint]:
"Not implemented" is very, very different to "not possible" (from my understanding it should "Just Work", but, apparently...it does not, as you report).

I am absolutely positive that a correctly formatted patch from yourself would be welcomed, be proactive! :)
Failing that, be patient.


[Saint]

gevaerts:
I'm fairly sure rockbox utility will build just fine on PPC. I don't think it's reasonable to expect us to provide binaries for all architectures linux runs on.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: [Saint] on February 05, 2013, 02:54:50 AM ---(from my understanding it should "Just Work", but, apparently...it does not, as you report).

--- End quote ---

I don't read this report as Rockbox Utility not compiling on PPC Linux but rather simply as the fact that we don't provide a binary for it. Since it builds fine on PPC OS X I expect it to "just work" on PPC Linux. However, since the architecture is rather rare there is no point in us providing binaries for it -- and (AFAIK) there is no developer working on such a setup at all. (Testing on PPC OS X is rather limited but somewhat works on 10.6 using Rosetta, but testing / developing on PPC Linux without owning PPC hardware is really hard, if possible in a viable way at all).

Generally speaking I wouldn't mind stopping to distribute binaries for Linux at all -- there are too many differences to easily create a binary that runs on all distros.

LeoTheLion89:
the linux version does not run on ppc linux it simply does not run

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