Re: numerix portability: question
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:53:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Recently,
> on the ocaml mailing list, there has been a thread about different
> Bignum implementation. Michel Quercia, numerix maintainer, stated that
> numerix is not portable and works only on x86 platform:
>
> -- Numerix is my baby, so I'll let other users say if it has merits.
> Same schemeas GMP (choose a suitable algorithm depending on the sizes
> of the inputs), without the double-GC problem. The drawback is
> portability : works on x86/Linux.
>
> I haven't tried to use numerix debian package, but I'm a bit puzzled by
> the fact that numerix package is Architecture: any. So my question to
> Sylvain, Mike and Medwards (latest changers of the package): have I
> overlooked something or there is a big problem(TM) with debian numeric
> debian package?
>
Hello,
I don't have a different arch at hand, so i cannot try it.
However, the buildd log show that it seems to build on most platform...
( doesn't imply that it runs, but it is the only hint i have )
Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall
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