On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:53:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Recently, > on the ocaml mailing list, there has been a thread about different > Bignum implementation. Michel Quercia, numerix maintainer, stated that > numerix is not portable and works only on x86 platform: > > -- Numerix is my baby, so I'll let other users say if it has merits. > Same schemeas GMP (choose a suitable algorithm depending on the sizes > of the inputs), without the double-GC problem. The drawback is > portability : works on x86/Linux. > > I haven't tried to use numerix debian package, but I'm a bit puzzled by > the fact that numerix package is Architecture: any. So my question to > Sylvain, Mike and Medwards (latest changers of the package): have I > overlooked something or there is a big problem(TM) with debian numeric > debian package? >
Hello, I don't have a different arch at hand, so i cannot try it. However, the buildd log show that it seems to build on most platform... ( doesn't imply that it runs, but it is the only hint i have ) Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall
