Bug 219540

For the moment I'll ExcludeArch ppc. Thanks for the report.

Strace shows that the game appears to be in an endless loop reading from a TGA
file. 

read(7, "", 65536)                      = 0
read(7, "", 65536)                      = 0
read(7, "", 65536)                      = 0
read(7, "", 65536)                      = 0
read(7, "", 65536)                      = 0

This kind of behaviour is often caused by using 'char foo = getchar()' and then
comparing the 'foo' variable with -1. But getchar() returns an _int_, because on
some platforms (like PowerPC) char is _unsigned_ by default. And can never
return -1; thus we never realise we've hit the end of the file.

ExcludeArch: ppc is a reasonable step in the _short_ term, but please make sure
it doesn't last for too long. I can provide help with issues which are _really_
architecture-specific rather than just bad code like the above example. And I
can provide access to PowerPC machines for building (although testing may be
harder since it seems to need 3D; hence local access).

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=702&sid=08c197312fd840bd5ee61b00bcf7f0a7

I've applied a patch based on the one found at
http://www.glest.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1426

Now I get this:
Exception: Your system supports OpenGL version "1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)"
Glest needs at least version 1.3 to work
You may solve this problem by installing your latest video card drivers

You might get it working on rawhide. What legal drivers in Fedora does it work
with? 

http://david.woodhou.se/glest-2.0.0-3.fc6.endian.1.ppc.rpm
http://david.woodhou.se/glest-cvs-incomplete-be-enabling.patch

See http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6615#6615

With latest patch from the Emanuel Steen (i modified it a little) it starts at
least.

http://lemenkov.googlepages.com/glest-cvs20070102-endian.patch

Although I still can't start game because of strange errors:

=============================================

[petro@Sulaco .glest]$ ./glest
void Shared::Platform::Window::setStyle(Shared::Platform::WindowStyle) not
implemented.
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy
Exception: Couldn't open audio device.
OpenAL Vendor: [petro@Sulaco .glest]$ 
[petro@Sulaco .glest]$ 
[petro@Sulaco .glest]$ ./glest
void Shared::Platform::Window::setStyle(Shared::Platform::WindowStyle) not
implemented.
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
Couldn't process event: Mouse Button > 3 not handled.
Couldn't process event: Mouse Button > 3 not handled.
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"custom-game-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"custom-game-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"scenario-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"scenario-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"scenario-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"scenario-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"custom-game-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"custom-game-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"custom-game-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"scenario-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
Couldn't process event: Node "camera" doesn't have 1 children named 
"custom-game-position"

Tree: camera (start-position root-position about-position config-position
info-position settings-position start-rotation root-rotation about-rotation
config-rotation info-rotation settings-rotation ) 
[petro@Sulaco .glest]$

=============================================

All these messages about "Tree: camera... " comes then I tried to start game.

I've checked in a change for the spec file to read:
ExcludeArch:    ppc ppc64

A "," is not parsed for arch excludes in the specfile.

regards,

Florian La Roche

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Reopening this bug since this issue still needs toi be fixed.

ppc builds have been turned off for a long time and I'd like to have someone who can, retest to see if ppc builds are still unplayable.
3.2.2 is available for ppc/ppc64 in rawhide.

Closing due to inactivity.

Feel free to reopen if problem still exists.

Thanks & regards, Phil