At Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:30:38 -0400, James Vega wrote: > 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.
Right --- the Racket JIT definitely does not support PPC in 64-bit mode. The Racket PPC JIT is enabled on Linux when `powerpc' is #defined at build time. Is `powerpc' #defined for the 64-bit build, perhaps in addition to `powerpc64'? Or is just `powerpc64' #defined? Thanks, Matthew _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
