Hi, On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, at 5:02 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 03:46:21PM -0400, Philip McGrath wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a patch series at https://gitlab.com/philip1/guix-patches/-/tree/zuo >> for the Racket 8.5.900 release candidate for the imminent Racket 8.6 >> release.[1] The patch series also enables Racket CS and the >> 'chez-scheme-for-racket' package on systems they haven't supported until >> now, such as powerpc64le-linux—at least, I think it does: I'm hoping some of >> you can test it. The riscv64-linux, mips64el-linux, and i586-gnu are >> similarly situated: I ask particularly about powerpc64le-linux because >> Matthew Flatt has tested it upstream (thanks to the GCC Compile Farm). >> >> If you just want to help quickly, try this: >> >> guix time-machine --url=https://gitlab.com/philip1/guix-patches --branch=zuo >> --disable-authentication -- build chez-scheme-for-racket racket >> >> and let me know how it goes, either here or at [2]. Allow about an hour for >> the build. (So, not *that* quickly …) >> >> [...] >> >> [2]: >> https://racket.discourse.group/t/chez-for-architectures-without-native-backends/950
FYI, I've sent the series as <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57050>, and I also updated the branch above. Testing on real hardware would still be very welcome, though! >> (There's still a problem with i586-pc-gnu, probably some missing/different C >> flag.) I ended up adding support for the Hurd as a native backend. -Philip
