ppc buildserver problem

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:44 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:05 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Not sure.  There is _no_ chance that the upstream devs could fix
> > what's wrong on POWER, or at least work around it?  Does it actually
> > require Altivec, or is it the stuff like cache line instructions that
> > are missing?
> 
> It's just a bug in their code. They're making assumptions about cache
> line size. Should be simple to fix.

If that's the only problem, yes. But building the ppc-binaries on a non-
ppc system stays a little bit odd.

But it seems to be that Altivec/vmx isn't used in fpc, so we can give it
a try.

Further fpc was one of the assignments for the Linux on POWER project.
The person who won that contest is willing to help and give his account
on those machines to me. I'm not sure if all fpc-developers may log in
into that system, since they are the jury for the contest. (which is
over, so it shoudn't be a real problem)

But the fact is that fpc 2.0.0 will never work on that system. So I must
patch it, or wait till 2.0.2 will be released.

Maybe it's better to do a excludearch until the problem is solved, and
released in a new stable version?

Regards,
  Joost.