Re: [Lightning] test environments for non-x86 CPUs

[Paulo César Pereira de Andrade]

2017-10-09 18:17 GMT-03:00 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>:
> Hi,

  Hi Bruno,

> The GNU lightning 2.1.1 release announcement [1] says
>   "alpha, hppa, mips (n32 abi), ppc (Darwin abi) and sparc ports
>    are no longer supported due to lack of a test environment."

  Sorry for not replying earlier.

> For alpha, hppa, mips, sparc you can produce test environments using
> qemu. You find my instructions at [2], based on those by Torbjörn
> Granlund [3].
>
> For Mac OS X/ppc, there are two ways:
>   - Get access to a real Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC hardware per ssh.
>   - Get access to a real Mac OS X 10.5 x86_64 hardware per ssh, and
>     use CC="gcc -arch ppc".
>
> Let me know if you need more info. I am using these test environments
> daily for GNU libffcall and GNU clisp.

  Many thanks for the documentation.
  Using your documentation I already fixed issues for the new varargs
interfaces on mips n32 and 64 abis, as well as for alpha.
  I will work on the other emulation environments.

>
>            Bruno
>
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8951
> [2] 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libffcall.git;a=tree;f=porting-tools/emulation
> [3] https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html

Thanks!
Paulo