From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: William ML Leslie <william.leslie.ttg@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>,
"debian-hppa@lists.debian.org" <debian-hppa@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Removal of hppa support
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:34:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb945a75-c6dc-cabd-1948-0f9793d6c6d6@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHgd1hFBTzTYgGXVkZ94vf5t+feBD3C7orKYWese4+ne5LxO9w@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/26/20 1:21 PM, William ML Leslie wrote:
> The only thing Wingo wrote publicly about this seems to be:
>
>> I ported some of the existing GNU Lightning backends over to Lightening... I deleted the backends for Itanium, HPPA, Alpha, and SPARC; they have no Debian ports and there is no situation in which I can afford to do QA on them. [0]
>
> I haven't pushed to see what conditions would need to change to make
> JIT support on these architectures desirable for the core developers.
> Thoughts, Andy? Ludo?
They have no Debian ports?
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-07-16/
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=guile-2.2&suite=sid
It would have been nice if anyone from upstream had reached out to us.
The lack of communication is rather disappointing.
>> Debian (and NetBSD) still support hppa perfectly fine so the code is actually
>> being compiled, used and test-run. And guile has been building fine on Debian/hppa.
>>
>> Access to hppa machines for testing and bug fixing is also available through Debian.
>>
>>> As an ia64 user, i'm a bit sad that we lost jit too - but i don't run any
>>> performance-sensitive guile jobs on that system.
>>
>> Are you using Debian's ia64 port? We recently resurrected it ;).
>>
>
> Yes I am - I saw that. Thank you for all your hard work on it!
You're welcome. We're always looking for more contributors.
> I was recently trying to figure out the issue with the vim-tiny tests
> and I broke my ssh access: I failed to realise why setting up a chroot
> was so important when you only have access to Sid. It is quite a bit
> of work to get iLO access in my office so I've been putting it off
> until I have a couple of days clear to look into it, and I've been
> working on replacing the ancient tech needed to speak to early iLO
> cards (a java6 browser plugin and old SSL with no hostname
> verification).
Yeah. The vim testsuite issue affects multiple architectures.
> It's not my first debian-ports fun either - I ran a hurd-i386 box for
> over a decade without issue.
Nice.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-26 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-25 19:32 Removal of hppa support John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-01-25 19:48 ` John David Anglin
2020-01-25 21:59 ` Helge Deller
2020-01-26 5:46 ` William ML Leslie
2020-01-26 6:19 ` William ML Leslie
2020-01-27 15:46 ` Andy Wingo
2020-01-27 17:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-27 21:41 ` tomas
2020-02-04 11:02 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-02-04 11:23 ` Andy Wingo
2020-02-04 11:41 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-01-26 9:50 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-01-26 12:21 ` William ML Leslie
2020-01-26 13:34 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2020-01-26 15:50 ` John David Anglin
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