Nothing significant needed to be done because there is now upstream support. However, due to issues related to `use ppc` evaluating to true on this arch and related changes to the ebuild, it should be tested on a ppc-linux system. Attached is a patch to add ppc-macos support. The ebuild is also available via http in my darcs overlay at the indicated URI.
Created attachment 84288 [details, diff] ppc-macos patch As above.
Seems ok to me. Successfully built with the patch, and used it to compile maxima which also seems fine.
wormo, do you mean to say that it worked on ppc linux or ppc-macos? Nick, if it is found to work fine on both architectures, you should commit the patch to CVS. The only question I have about your patch is the last section: @@ -91,7 +104,7 @@ # use x86 \ # && echo '(enable :sb-futex)' \ # >>${S}/customize-target-features.lisp - echo '(disable :sb-test)' >>${S}/customize-target-features.lisp +# echo '(disable :sb-test)' >>${S}/customize-target-features.lisp ! use unicode \ && echo '(disable :sb-unicode)' \ >>${S}/customize-target-features.lisp That would affect all archs. Is there any reason to exclude :sb-test from customize-target-features?
Worked on ppc linux
mkennedy: That line will be uncommented for submission. It's not necessary. Why is sb-test disabled by default? Is it extra runtime type-checking or something? I enabled the test hoping for extra output while testing sbcl on ppc-macos.
Created attachment 84658 [details, diff] disabled sb-test as original Re-disabled sb-test.
In the SBCL archive root directory base-target-features.lisp-expr: ;; Do regression and other tests when building the system. You might ;; or might not want this if you're not a developer, depending on how ;; paranoid you are. You probably do want it if you are a developer. ;; This test does not affect the target system (in much the same way ;; as :sb-after-xc-core, below). :sb-test I can't remember what effect it had exactly, but disabling it for users is a good idea. I vaguely recall it avoids loading up *-test.asd system definitions and that was a speedup. I'll apply your latest patch when I get home.
Nick, one more question about the patch: if use ppc-macos && use ldb; then true elif use ppc && use ldb; then sbcl_einfo <<'EOF' Building SBCL on PPC with LDB support is not a supported configuration in Gentoo. Please refer to Bug #121830 for more information. EOF die fi I'm not sure what the intention there is. Does ldb really work on ppc-macos but not on non-macos ppc?
I dont think it does, so I adjusted that stanza slightly and committed to portage.
Sorry for the delay; I'm in the middle of moving. I tried building sbcl with the ldb use flag enabled and encountered no compilation errors as described in the associated bug mentioned in the ebuild (#121830). Hence, I left it as an available option in the patch.
