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From: "Philip McGrath" <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Want to test Racket/Chez on powerpc64le?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:46:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87792c53-7efc-4c5e-8983-4abd7854b256@www.fastmail.com> (raw)

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 …)

Some more background about what's new:

The systems I listed above are ones for which Racket's variant of Chez Scheme doesn't (yet!) have backends to generate machine code. With these changes, they instead can now use "pbarch" backends added to Racket's variant of Chez Scheme: a "portable bytecode" mode specialized to word size and endianness, with core bytecode additionally compiled to C.

I've cross-compiled 'chez-scheme-for-racket' and 'racket-vm-cs' successfully for the Linux-based systems. (There's still a problem with i586-pc-gnu, probably some missing/different C flag.) Unfortunately, I ran into a QEMU error [3] when I tried an emulated build, possibly related to Racket BC's use of SIGSEGV to implement the GC write barrier, and I don't have access to any of the relevant hardware myself. So, I'm hoping people who do might be able to give it a try!

Thanks,
Philip

[1]: https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-v8-6-release-thread/1091
[2]: https://racket.discourse.group/t/chez-for-architectures-without-native-backends/950
[3]: https://racket.discourse.group/t/chez-for-architectures-without-native-backends/950/13


             reply	other threads:[~2022-08-01 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-01 19:46 Philip McGrath [this message]
2022-08-01 21:02 ` Want to test Racket/Chez on powerpc64le? Efraim Flashner
2022-08-08  6:17   ` Philip McGrath

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