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Oh, don't worry — I suppose I can thank my anxiety for running (nearly) bleeding edge software on this machine: I worry a lot about support for 32-bit PowerPC architecture waning from mainstream software, so I build new versions just to make sure things still work: I have Python 3.12 there, LLVM 17, GCC 13 and so on. I even have linux 6.9, which mostly works, but has certain hard to reproduce issues, so I'm sticking with 6.1 😁
@gemlog
As for Rust — I'm only testing waters myself, I'm still far from being
comfortable with the language, but I was pleasantly surprised that a lot
of things build out of the box even on such a rare platform — others require minimal porting, I touch this bit in the next thread.
Most crates support PowerPC now, even ring the popular TLS crate — basically it's Rust bindings for Google's fork of OpenSSL. Not having it used to be a big problem as even the newer rustls relies on it.
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Every now and then I give this machine a "maintenance day" when I build new software from upstream Void and fix things that break — luckily, I don't have to do much as xbps-src facilitates most mundane tasks.
Yesterday was such a day, that's how I ended up having the latest-greatest.