I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news - I can't replicate your problem.
Good news - I was able to dig up an old PowerMac running Ubuntu. $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS \n \l Unfortunately it appears to be a G5, not a G4. $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported clock : 1800.000000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) processor : 1 cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported clock : 1800.000000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) timebase : 33333333 platform : PowerMac model : PowerMac7,3 machine : PowerMac7,3 motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld FWIW - v8 seems to bootstrap just fine $ ./out/ppc.debug/d8 V8 version 3.14.5 (candidate) [console: dumb] d8> 3+4 7 d8> -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
