Bug#843538: freeorion: enable on mips64el

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 07/11/16 16:14, Markus Koschany wrote:
> On 07.11.2016 16:17, James Cowgill wrote:
>> Source: freeorion
>> Version: 0.4.6-3
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please enable freeorion on mips64el. Unlike mips and mipsel it doesn't
>> suffer from the virtual memory limitations so it should build fine.
>>
>> Unfortunately there isn't a lot which can be done about the 32-bit mips
>> arches short of maybe disabling optimizations or messing about with some
>> gcc options to reduce memory usage (I have tried neither). It's an
>> architectural limitation, not a problem with the buildds.
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> I can enable mips64el when I package the next revision or Git snapshot.

Thanks.

> I have tried to build on mips and mipsel with "MinSizeRel" (-O0)
> optimization but it never really worked. The latest versions of
> FreeOrion require more than 4 GB of RAM and with less the build process
> becomes very slow due to swapping. The issue is somewhere in the
> ConditionParsers but I don't know how it can be optimized.

OK then. It's probably best to just leave mips and mipsel disabled until
someone can find out how to get it working.

James

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