Re: Dropping arm/ia64 opt compilers [was: felix regression on arm?]
On 02-10-2007, Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> John,
>> do you have any explanation for the felix test failure on arm?
>
> I believe the problems on arm and ia64 are both OCaml compiler bugs.
> These are been reported upstream for a couple of programs that are in
> debian [1,2,3] and have all been essentially marked "wontfix" by the
> OCaml guys since they don't have ready access to those architectures.
>
> So, I think we should probably consider dropping the native compilers on
> those architectures until they are supported better (either by upstream
> or some adventurous DD with knowledge of those archs).
>
> Cheers,
> -Mike
>
> [1] - http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3077
> [2] - http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3908
> [3] - http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3952
>
>
Since camomile falls in this case, i agree that the solution is to drop
these arches for a while...
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
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