Bug 52488, floating point denormal exception

[Saulius Krasuckas]

* On 2022-01-31 22:18, Fabian Maurer wrote:
>> The main blocker is the lack of a LGPL compatible compiler. Openwatcom
>> can compile win16 binaries, but the license isn't compatible
> 
> I don't really understand why that is. I mean, Wine isn't distributing 
> the
> compiler? Or is the point that it's hard to get distros to ship 
> openwatcom
> packages due to the license?

IIRC the issue of the non-friendly license was that almost nobody was 
packaging / maintaining it on mainstream distros.

Quick Google query says it's still probably the same:
https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/discussions/487

Here I get only packages for Arch Linux and Haiku:
https://repology.org/project/openwatcom/versions
https://repology.org/project/openwatcom-v2/versions

On the other hand, snap version seems to be available:
https://snapcraft.io/open-watcom

S.