#11297: altivec must be disabled for ECL on PPC OSX 10.5
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Reporter: dimpase | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: build | Keywords: PPC, MacOSX 10.5, ECL
Work_issues: | Upstream: Reported upstream. Little or no
feedback.
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by dimpase):
* cc: kcrisman (added)
* status: new => needs_review
Old description:
> ECL 11.1.1.p0 spkg does not build on MacOSX PPC (G4) running MacOSX 10.5,
> and using XCode 3.1.4 (the lastest XCode for this platform).
> Symptoms: a crash half-way the build, at the log point
> {{{
> ;;; About to load cmp/load.lsp
> ;;;
> ;;; Now we are in shape to do something useful.
> ;;; End of bare.lsp
> }}}
> it can be:
> {{{
> Internal or unrecoverable error in:
> not a lisp data object
> [2: No such file or directory]
> }}}
> or
> {{{
> Detected access to an invalid or protected memory address.
> Available restarts:
> 1. (CONTINUE) Ignore signal
> }}}
> or
> {{{
> 64 is an illegal index to "Variable in COMMON-LISP package:
> The last-but-one top-level forme".
> No restarts available.
> }}}
> or perhaps something else like this. This is apparently due to an ECL bug
> having to do with altivec instructions.
> Configuring with
> {{{
> ./configure CFLAGS="-mno-altivec -mabi=no-altivec"
> }}}
> makes the ECL build OK. See
> https://groups.google.com/group/sage-
> devel/browse_thread/thread/55313fb49133b97/8cbd9ac8826ef685#8cbd9ac8826ef685
>
> for more info on this.
New description:
ECL 11.1.1.p0 spkg does not build on MacOSX PPC (G4) running MacOSX 10.5,
and using XCode 3.1.4 (the lastest XCode for this platform).
Symptoms: a crash half-way the build, at the log point
{{{
;;; About to load cmp/load.lsp
;;;
;;; Now we are in shape to do something useful.
;;; End of bare.lsp
}}}
it can be:
{{{
Internal or unrecoverable error in:
not a lisp data object
[2: No such file or directory]
}}}
or
{{{
Detected access to an invalid or protected memory address.
Available restarts:
1. (CONTINUE) Ignore signal
}}}
or
{{{
64 is an illegal index to "Variable in COMMON-LISP package:
The last-but-one top-level forme".
No restarts available.
}}}
or perhaps something else like this. This is apparently due to an ECL bug
having to do with altivec instructions.
Configuring with
{{{
./configure CFLAGS="-mno-altivec -mabi=no-altivec"
}}}
makes the ECL build OK. See
https://groups.google.com/group/sage-
devel/browse_thread/thread/55313fb49133b97/8cbd9ac8826ef685#8cbd9ac8826ef685
for more info on this.
The new spkg is at
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/dima/packages/ecl-11.1.1.p1.spkg
tested OK on MacOSX 10.5 PPC (and on few non-PPC systems just to make sure
it's OK).
Needs testing on more MacOSX PPC systems.
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Comment:
Replying to [comment:4 jdemeyer]:
> I think having an argument CFLAGS and a conflicting environment variable
CFLAGS is asking for touble. Why not simply do
{{{
if [ "`uname -sm`" = "Darwin Power Macintosh" ] ; then
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mno-altivec -mabi=no-altivec"
export CFLAGS
fi
}}}
>
OK, I've created an spkg with this patch (link in the ticket description).
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