Hi Mathieu, So it would be appropriate to change the #if to
#if defined (TARGET_POWERPC) || defined (TARGET_POWERPC64) if I understand the problem correctly? Regards, Alex On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > # set patch tag at least to get some attention, may need some tweaking > # since pagesize on buildd machine != user installed one > Control: tags -1 patch > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am currently trying to resurrect Mono debian package on PowerPC (32bits >> BE). >> >> I have two questions: >> >> - Is there a released version I should consider to start with if I >> want to make mono work son PowerPC again ? >> >> - I see some big changes here at: >> 99902cec93dfbc9e18e3fb6fa07b8770a3bd9adc so I am wondering if version >> 4.2.1.102 (current debian package) is not a bit too old so get things >> back in shape. > > Answering my own post. > > So the bug was really within sgen implementation details: > ARCH_MIN_MS_BLOCK* definitions. > > Within debian infrstratucture, our buildd machines are setup using > default debian kernel, and the default kernel logical page size was > changed recently: > > [debian/config/kernelarch-powerpc/config-arch-64: Set PPC_64K_PAGES.] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=aed63a56b189d771116f2d4b8fe10bbec528e6a2 > > The ppc32 buildd machine is setup on a ppc64 kernel. For some obscure > details (at least to me), one cannot run a debian ppc32 kernel on > ppc64 arch. Which means that the basic `mono` compiler is compiled > using ppc32 user space, but at C# compile time is executed on ppc64 > kernel. > > I am guessing another simple patch would be to run the bootstrap > process with gc=none and keep the default sgen 4K setting for ppc32 > machine. > > It would be nice that mono detect any incoherence at runtime, this > would make tracking this bug in the future *so* much easier. > > -M > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list