Re: Dropping arm/ia64 opt compilers [was: felix regression on arm?]

[sven@powerlinux.fr (Sven Luther)]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:44:31PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> 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

This last issue seem to be fixed :

  xleroy (2008-02-20) Thanks for the ARM patch. It is applied in the 3.10 bugfix branch and
  will be part of the 3.10.2 release. 

I wonder if there was another reason for the arm native code compiler
not being built (am playing with arm hardware currently, thus the
curiosity, altough i only have cross compilers set up right now, which
don't play well with ocaml).

Both ia64 and arm as noted as tier-2 supported in the 3.11 README file.

Friendly,

Sven Luther