I'm definitely here to stay for powerpc. I've fixed ghci and worked on several other compilers that were broken on powerpc (just in the past few weeks).
I've confirmed this working on Ubuntu powerpc. Adam Conrad is currently looking to bootstrap for Ubuntu quantal powerpc, we just wanted to have this in Debian too, so we can make sure we aren't off-by-one on debian/control. Thanks On Jul 16, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Christoph Egger wrote: > Hi! > > Ben Collins <be...@servergy.com> writes: >> Package: sbcl >> Version: 2:1.0.57.0-2 >> >> I was able to bootstrap powerpc without problems using the binaries >> downloaded from sbcl.org for linux-ppc. Please bootstrap this and enable >> powerpc builds. > > Building on !x86 was disabled due to noone being around who is able to > acctually debug compiler bugs there. And we have seen issues on non-x86 > architectures in the past which are not a priority upstream either. Are > you / the ppc porters able to step in and help debug problems as they > arise? > > Regards > > Christoph > > -- > 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 > Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer -- Ben Collins Servergy, Inc. (757) 243-7557 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication contains privileged and/or confidential information; and should be maintained with the strictest confidence. It is intended solely for the use of the person or entity in which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are STRICTLY PROHIBITED from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of this information. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
