Building on IA64 and other archs

[Félix Arreola Rodríguez «gatuno_123»]

I was looking at mame buildd logs, it seems to fail on some archs.

I think we can build mame on ia64 by passing out the SDLMAME_NOASM
macro in DEB_MAME_OPTS, but I can't test it because I don't have the
hardware.

Can I push this change to git repository on alioth, and test with
buildd daemons? (or even better: just with the ia64 machine)

Suggestions?

[Jordi Mallach]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:29:09PM -0700, F�lix Arreola Rodr�guez �gatuno_123� wrote:
> I was looking at mame buildd logs, it seems to fail on some archs.
>
> I think we can build mame on ia64 by passing out the SDLMAME_NOASM
> macro in DEB_MAME_OPTS, but I can't test it because I don't have the
> hardware.

Besides the lack of asm code for !x86 !ppc, MAME suffers from unaligned
memory issues throughout its codebase so this is a correct change but not
enough. I did some build tests on sparc and arm and there's little we can
do without extensive changes to the codebase. It can be done, but its some
good work.

http://www.mametesters.org/view.php?id=4318

I even tried to build the tools only for these arches but even the tools
have these problems.

Jordi
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