On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
That's wrong for OCaml programs, since strings in 32 bit OCaml
programs
are limited to 16 MB (but effectively unlimited on 64 bit platforms).
That doesn't actually affect anything we ship or might _want_ to ship,
though, does it?
So 64 bit should always be preferred.
We can build both and normally default to 32-bit; if a package exists
_only_ in the 64-bit version and not for ppc32 (or i386), then it and
its dependencies will get installed.
Having said that we're still waiting for someone to port the
OCaml
compiler to Linux/ppc64 ...
s/port/debug/
Most of the work is done -- it builds, the native compiler works, and
the test cases I tried it with all work.... except for freetennis, which
segfaults after bringing up the first window. I kind of got stuck there
because it was all static libraries and the debug information was
missing; I need to build it all manually to poke at it.
--
dwmw2