Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma
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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