Raymond Toy said:
>
>>>>>> "Giannandrea" == Giannandrea Castaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Giannandrea> I know there has been a first porting of cmucl on OS X
> but I wander if
> Giannandrea> I'll make a dual partion on a apple power book to install
> also
> Giannandrea> debian-ppc I'll be able to use the same version of cmucl
> available on
> Giannandrea> debian-x86? I suppose that the compiled file .x86f are
> only for
> Giannandrea> debian-x86 and then there is something different in the
> compiler.
>
> Of course they're different. Just like you can't run x86 binaries on
ppc (without some kind of emulator), you can't take the x86f fasls and
run them on ppc.
Exactly. FWIW, the cmucl-x86 binaries work just fine running under
Debian/x86 under Virtual PC 5.x (likely also later versions). Of course
this doesn't turn out to be a speed daemon, due to the emulation
overhead...
> If you really want to run cmucl on ppc, I think you'll have to port
Pierre's OS X version to ppc. Or run sbcl, which works there, I
^^^ to Linux, you mean ;)
> think.
Yes. I might get around to porting to Linux myself, since this is likely
to be not much work, OTOH I'd first have to install Linux/ppc on a
suitable machine, so this might have to wait until I either have plenty of
spare time, and/or buy a new PowerBook, thus liberating my iBook for
experimental stuff.
Of course if someone were to offer me access to a suitable Linux/ppc
machine, I might get around to doing the port earlier. Though currently,
there are still a number of bugs in the OS X port I'd want to fix first...
In any case, SBCL runs just fine on Linux/ppc, and is there for the taking.
Regs, Pierre.
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