Hello,

I'm still trying to get The Powder Toy into Debian, but I've recently seen some warnings:

../the-powder-toy_81.7-0~ppa3_amd64.build:/usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 8 of symbol `gravmap' in build/obj/gravity.powder-64-sse2.o is smaller than 16 in build/obj/luaconsole.powder-64-sse2.o
../the-powder-toy_81.7-0~ppa3_amd64.build:/usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 8 of symbol `gravmap' in build/obj/gravity.powder-64-sse2.o is smaller than 16 in build/obj/powder.powder-64-sse2.o
../the-powder-toy_81.7-0~ppa3_amd64.build:/usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 8 of symbol `gravmap' in build/obj/gravity.powder-64-sse2.o is smaller than 16 in build/obj/elements/gbmb.powder-64-sse2.o
../the-powder-toy_81.7-0~ppa3_amd64.build:/usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 8 of symbol `gravmap' in build/obj/gravity.powder-64-sse2.o is smaller than 16 in build/obj/elements/nbhl.powder-64-sse2.o
../the-powder-toy_81.7-0~ppa3_amd64.build:/usr/bin/ld: Warning: alignment 8 of symbol `gravmap' in build/obj/gravity.powder-64-sse2.o is smaller than 16 in build/obj/elements/nwhl.powder-64-sse2.o

I think fixing these warnings will encourage some package sponsors to upload the package into Debian. I've seen some Fedora users on the Fedora Forums having the same problems, too, so it's not just an Ubuntu/Debian problem.

If you're curious, my branch for Debian packaging is here: https://github.com/kroq-gar78/The-Powder-Toy_deb

If you have any suggestions, please tell me.

Thanks in advance!

Yep, looks like that did it, and I can also confirm that it doesn't happen to non-amd64 processors. Will this cause any problems for non-64bit processors (I don't know much C)?

@plypencil (View Post)

 Hmm... I don't seem to be getting these warnings on my Raspberry Pi. My branch is 'raspi' in the repository listed above, if you're interested. If you want, you can try to compile using that branch and see if the errors persist... and yes, I think the raspi is 32-bit.

@plypencil (View Post)

 Yes, it compiles perfectly and builds .deb's, too. Note that you must manually apply the patch using "patch -i debian/patches/raspi-fix-compile.patch -p1". Then run "make powder" and it should work fine.