It's nice that guile-1.6 now builds on ia64, but a shame that it doesn't work at all. The failures look just like the sort of things that scm also does on ia64.
However, this is no big surprise to me. I said a while back, but it may have gotten lost, that scm also does not work on ia64. Upstream scm is working on adding support, but it's nontrivial. I am happy to point the guile developers at the guy who's working on the ia64 scm port; perhaps Aubrey Jaffer (== scm upstream) could bring someone up to speed. Since guile is based on scm, I would be surprised if guile works on ia64 unless someone has put specific porting work into it. The correct response, I believe, is for Debian guile-1.6 to declare in the architecture spec that ia64 is not supported. This is also a release engineering issue, because it means that packages which use guile (say, like gnucash) would need to be able to slide into testing despite not being functional on ia64. It seems like it would be incorrect to declare in gnucash that ia64 is not supported, because there is no gnucash-specific problem. Still, I don't understand all the release engineering issues. Steve, can you offer some suggestions? Assume, for the moment, that it will not be possible to make guile work on ia64. What then? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
