Re: what to do with the ocaml metapackage

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:24:10PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:17:11AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Or, we can not build perl4caml on PowerPC and not build perl4caml
> > support in ocamldbi on PowerPC.
> 
> Yes, but I tend to believe that perl4caml works on i386 only. I've not
> tested other archs, though.
> 
> > Better yet, if someone could track down the perl4caml problem on
> > PowerPC... :-)
> 
> Better, but I wont :)
> Sven a while ago said that he could look at it ..., Sven?

Don't really have time for it now, will see if i can find time this weekend.
That said : 

17:28 < jcristau> svenl: le bug de perl4caml ca pourrait pas etre un pb
d'endianness ?
17:28 < svenl> jcristau: probablement.
17:28 < jcristau> svenl: je viens d'installer sur sparc
17:28 < jcristau> et j'ai aussi un segfault
17:28 < svenl> j'ai pas vraiment le temps de chercher la, je vais voir ...
17:28 < svenl> Cool, tu peut essayer de debugger ?
17:29 < jcristau> j'enverrai un followup sur le bugreport

So, basically, the problem is also present on sparc, and may be endianess
related. John: any big-endian debian developer machine may exhibit this
problem, so you can fix it yourself. Could you at least try to run it on alpha
or another little endian non-x86 box to see if it is an endianess issue ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther