On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:06:28PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:34:30AM -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > Right --- the Racket JIT definitely does not support PPC in 64-bit > > mode. > > > > The Racket PPC JIT is enabled on Linux when `powerpc' is #defined at > > build time. Is `powerpc' #defined for the 64-bit build, perhaps in > > addition to `powerpc64'? Or is just `powerpc64' #defined? > > By default debian ppc is 32bit. The kernel is 64bit and some libraries > have 64bit versions built, but for the most part the system is 32bit. > Unlike x86_64, ppc (and sparc and a number of others) are usualyl less > efficient in 64bit mode due to pointer sizes and cache overhead, and > don't gain anything from going 64bit unless the application really has > a need for lots of memory space. Hence no ppc64 port in debian. > > I even tried doing 'linux32 dpkg-buildpackage' which makes the uname -m > claim to be 32bit, and even then with 32bit userspace and a kernel > claiming to be 32bit, it still failed the same way. So, does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I'm afraid I'm a bit out of my league here without some guidance. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
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