ppc buildserver problem

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:04 +0200, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> 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.

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

> 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?

I've solved the problem by patching fpc, and it builds now!

Maybe it could give some problems in the future, though.

Thanks all for your help the last few months for getting fpc into
extras: for sponsering me and for all the reviews and comments.

Joost.