Jackson Doak writes (Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?):
The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using
it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all
builders. Just something to consider
I think dropping the package from i386
Le mercredi 17 septembre 2014 à 14:29 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
Jackson Doak writes (Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?):
The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using
it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all
builders
On 2014-09-17 15:47, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
Concerning the buildd, I now realize that the package really needs SSE2
support at build time. The reason is that, Julia being a JIT-compiler,
it is run at build time to create the binary image of its standard
library. I'll see if that creates
On 15/09/2014 22:28, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
The package ikarus, another programming language implementation,
also requires SSE2 support.
There is a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if
sse2 is unavailable.
case $1 in
install|upgrade)
if egrep -q
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote:
Thomas Goirand, le Mon 15 Sep 2014 20:45:27 +0800, a écrit :
On 09/15/2014 05:17 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Thomas Goirand, le Mon 15 Sep 2014 16:53:25 +0800, a écrit :
I suppose (according to what's above) that
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:47:27AM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU
requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1]
for more details). And the presence of SSE2 is not guaranteed on the
i386
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot
sebast...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
As the maintainer of julia (a technical computing language built on top
of LLVM), I am wondering whether I should continue supporting the i386
architecture.
The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and
On 09/15/2014 04:04 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot
sebast...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
As the maintainer of julia (a technical computing language built on top
of LLVM), I am wondering whether I should continue supporting the i386
architecture.
Thomas Goirand, le Mon 15 Sep 2014 16:53:25 +0800, a écrit :
I suppose (according to what's above) that using
/usr/lib/sse4.2/x86_64-linux-gnu isn't supported (yet), right?
I guess it shouldn't be hard to add the support, once the need is
expressed :)
Samuel
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On 09/15/2014 05:17 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Thomas Goirand, le Mon 15 Sep 2014 16:53:25 +0800, a écrit :
I suppose (according to what's above) that using
/usr/lib/sse4.2/x86_64-linux-gnu isn't supported (yet), right?
I guess it shouldn't be hard to add the support, once the need is
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Adrien Clerc wrote:
I'm in the category of people who installed their Debian 8 years ago, on
an old AMD processor, only i686. My hardware was upgraded since, but the
system remains. I've searched for cross-grade, but nothing serious comes
out, except
On 15. sep. 2014 18:50, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Adrien Clerc wrote:
I'm in the category of people who installed their Debian 8 years ago, on
an old AMD processor, only i686. My hardware was upgraded since, but the
system remains. I've searched for
The package ikarus, another programming language implementation,
also requires SSE2 support.
There is a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if
sse2 is unavailable.
case $1 in
install|upgrade)
if egrep -q '^flags[[:space:]]*:.*\bsse2\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then
Thomas Goirand, le Mon 15 Sep 2014 20:45:27 +0800, a écrit :
On 09/15/2014 05:17 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Thomas Goirand, le Mon 15 Sep 2014 16:53:25 +0800, a écrit :
I suppose (according to what's above) that using
/usr/lib/sse4.2/x86_64-linux-gnu isn't supported (yet), right?
I
Hi,
As the maintainer of julia (a technical computing language built on top
of LLVM), I am wondering whether I should continue supporting the i386
architecture.
The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU
requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do,
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU
requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1]
for more details). And the presence of SSE2 is not guaranteed on the
i386 architecture.
Hi,
On Sep 14, 2014 9:16 AM, Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU
requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1]
for more
The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using
it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all
builders. Just something to consider
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Balint Reczey rbal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sep 14, 2014 9:16 AM, Michael
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot
sebast...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
As the maintainer of julia (a technical computing language built on top
of LLVM), I am wondering whether I should continue supporting the i386
architecture.
The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and
Le 14/09/2014 08:47, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
So I have two options: either ship a i386 package that only works on
SSE2 processors (ideally giving a meaningful error message when run on
older CPUs); or drop support for i386, which is a disservice to our
users (the few who have a
Le dimanche 14 septembre 2014 à 07:47 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a
écrit :
So I have two options: either ship a i386 package that only works on
SSE2 processors (ideally giving a meaningful error message when run on
older CPUs); or drop support for i386, which is a disservice to our
users
The
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