Re: please hint lilypond 2.8.7 into testing
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 02:14 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > For the record, release-criticality of build failures applies only to build
> > failures on release architectures where the package *previously* built
> > successfully, and I had never claimed otherwise in the case of guile-1.8.
> > That seems to have been the root of some confusion in this matter.
> > Is there any news on getting the guile-1.8 ia64 build failure fixed?
> Not that I can see on the mailing lists; you might ask Rob Browning if
> there has been some traffic I didn't see.
> My belief is that this will not be a simple fix; the ia64 has a weird
> stack structure and Scheme's call/cc is not trivial to implement on
> weird stack machines. It took lots of work upstream to get scm to work
> on ia64, and I think this is the same thing, since guile is a clone of
> scm in its origins.
Right; it's unfortunate that this seems to be a regression though, given
that guile-1.6 built fine on ia64...
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