Leon Bottou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:54 am, Leon Bottou wrote: > > I can see two possible causes: > > > > 1- A floating exception (problems we encountered on mipses) > > The fix would then be easy. > > > > 2- A bfd issue in the dynamic loading/unloading code. > > This could result from gp constructs in IA64 ELF. > > Fixing this would require significant work. > > We'd have to temporarilly declare lush unavailable on IA64. > > > > I would need less than one hour of access to an IA64 machine > > to determine the nature of the problem. Fixing problem 1 > > would be immediate. Fixing problem 2 would take weeks. > > After checking the IA64 ABI, I am certain that problem 2 occurs.
Ok, then I'll note that it cannot be built on ia64. I will ask the Debian machine people if you can have a temporary account to work on a port if you would like; let me know. Thomas
