On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:31:05PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:58:04PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:30:07PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > > Since at least 4.2.4, Racket has been failing to build[0][1] for Debian > > > on G5-based PowerPC systems[2][3]. At the time, the only other PowerPC > > > system that was available within Debian to debug on was a G4-based > > > system[4]. On that system, Racket has been building fine using either > > > the 3m or cgc GC. > > Of course it also occured to me that the G5 (IBM 970) and the power6+ > I am using are 64bit powerpc machines, while the G4 is 32bit I believe. > Might matter.
Looks like that may be it. Much of the JIT code leverages GNU Lightning, which doesn't appear to support ppc64 yet. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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