Re: Want to test Racket/Chez on powerpc64le?

[Philip McGrath]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, at 5:02 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 03:46:21PM -0400, Philip McGrath wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I have a patch series at https://gitlab.com/philip1/guix-patches/-/tree/zuo 
>> for the Racket 8.5.900 release candidate for the imminent Racket 8.6 
>> release.[1] The patch series also enables Racket CS and the 
>> 'chez-scheme-for-racket' package on systems they haven't supported until 
>> now, such as powerpc64le-linux—at least, I think it does: I'm hoping some of 
>> you can test it. The riscv64-linux, mips64el-linux, and i586-gnu are 
>> similarly situated: I ask particularly about powerpc64le-linux because 
>> Matthew Flatt has tested it upstream (thanks to the GCC Compile Farm).
>> 
>> If you just want to help quickly, try this:
>> 
>> guix time-machine --url=https://gitlab.com/philip1/guix-patches --branch=zuo 
>> --disable-authentication -- build chez-scheme-for-racket racket
>> 
>> and let me know how it goes, either here or at [2]. Allow about an hour for 
>> the build. (So, not *that* quickly …)
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> [2]: 
>> https://racket.discourse.group/t/chez-for-architectures-without-native-backends/950

FYI, I've sent the series as <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57050>, and I also 
updated the branch above. Testing on real hardware would still be very welcome, 
though!

>> (There's still a problem with i586-pc-gnu, probably some missing/different C 
>> flag.)

I ended up adding support for the Hurd as a native backend.

-Philip