On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 02:14 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > For the record, release-criticality of build failures applies only to build > > failures on release architectures where the package *previously* built > > successfully, and I had never claimed otherwise in the case of guile-1.8. > > That seems to have been the root of some confusion in this matter.
> > Is there any news on getting the guile-1.8 ia64 build failure fixed? > Not that I can see on the mailing lists; you might ask Rob Browning if > there has been some traffic I didn't see. > My belief is that this will not be a simple fix; the ia64 has a weird > stack structure and Scheme's call/cc is not trivial to implement on > weird stack machines. It took lots of work upstream to get scm to work > on ia64, and I think this is the same thing, since guile is a clone of > scm in its origins. Right; it's unfortunate that this seems to be a regression though, given that guile-1.6 built fine on ia64... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
