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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Christophe Papazian <christophe.papazian@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Alignment of data
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100127175605.GA21580@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4CB0D18-6169-446E-A72F-410D25115D34@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:20:44PM +0100, Christophe Papazian wrote:
> Is there a 64-bit PowerPC Linux (ELF) support in ocaml ? I thought
> it was only a 64-bit PowerPC OSX (Darwin) support...

Yes indeed there is.  For years we maintained an out of tree patch to
support this for Fedora/ppc64:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/F-12/ocaml/ocaml-3.11.0-ppc64.patch

However Fedora 13 (onwards) has relegated ppc (32 & 64 bit) support to
status of a "secondary architecture"[1], which effectively means we
don't care about it.  For this reason I dropped this patch and don't
intend to maintain it.

The patch itself seems relatively trouble-free.  We built all the
Fedora packages with it, and only a couple had problems compiling on
ppc64.  Since I never had access to a real ppc64 machine, I was never
able to determine if these build problems were because this patch is
faulty or for some other unrelated reason, so YMMV.

Rich.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures#Structure

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-27 12:03 Christophe Papazian
2010-01-27 15:26 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2010-01-27 16:15 ` Xavier Leroy
2010-01-27 17:20   ` Christophe Papazian
2010-01-27 17:56     ` Richard Jones [this message]
     [not found] <20100127161719.C6A10BC37@yquem.inria.fr>
2010-01-27 16:38 ` Pascal Cuoq
2010-01-27 21:01   ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow

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