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Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma



Hi Mo, Paul,
did you see any improvement with luajit2 ?
I was looking at luakit, which still fails "silently" on ppc64el, a lua
script generating a .h with no symbols with luajit2, where it does work
with lua.
Also I see that the autopkgtest of knot-resolver still fails on
ppc64el.

F.

On Thu, 19 May 2022 22:14:01 -0400 "M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've followed luajit closely since 2015 on ppc64el as a porter
> > without enough knowledge to port it, but trying to ease on the
> > packaging/Debian side (being both IBMer/DD).
> > That port has been a mixed effort between a code bounty and an IBM
> > effort (some devs) .
> > It didn't started well (
> > https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/PPC64le-port-status,1 ;)
> > and it has never grown and be really part of the upstream project
> > sadly.
> > 
> > With the years, I'm even less optimistic as no IBM nor external
> > developer seem to be working on that. Mike Pall seems to be around
> > though as you said there's no release (not necessarily a bad sign).
> > I can ping inside IBM but I'm not sure there will be any positive
> > feedback.
> > 
> > So I'd say we have no choice, i.e. let's drop IBM arches .
> > What I did a few times for packages depending on libluajit was to use
> > liblua instead :
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892765
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > F.
> 
> Nobody want to spend time on an bottomless hole ...
> I'll simply remove ppc64el architecture support from src:luajit,
> and give src:luajit2 (openresty) a try.
> 

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