From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA20650; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:04:09 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA19971 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:04:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA11902 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:40:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.44.193]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1I9e0506607 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:40:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (from luther@localhost) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA21039 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:40:55 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:40:55 +0100 From: Sven To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] caml on LinuxPPC Message-ID: <20020218104055.A21003@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> References: <20020212133805.H16174@cilantro.cs.wisc.edu> <20020215031733.GB12898@cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020215031733.GB12898@cmu.edu>; from ecc@cmu.edu on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:17:33PM -0500 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:17:33PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:38:05PM -0600, Will Benton wrote: > > How well-supported is OCaml under LinuxPPC? > > The short answer to your question is: not as well as under x86 Linux. > > I just did a quick test on a Debian powerpc, using the latest ocaml, > lablgtk, and lablgl packages (from Debian "unstable") to compile apps > that I originally wrote on an x86. > > My vanilla OCaml and GTK apps compiled and ran OK with ocamlc. They > compiled with ocamlopt but did not work (the resulting code just > looped). They didn't compile with ocamlopt.opt: the compiler itself > would either loop or segfault (consistent with the previous > observation of ocamlopt producing buggy code). Yes, there seems to be a bug in the actual powerpc version of the native code compilers. Xavier and the ocaml team are aware of that and actively working on it (i don't know if there is a solution yet though). That said, previous versions of ocaml did work fine on ppc, and i have great hopes that this will happen again as soon as this bug is corrected. In the meantime, i will disable native code build on ppc, just to be on the safe side. > The lablgl applications did not appear to work even when built with > ocamlc; they produced X protocol errors. huh ??? > When I track the problems down a bit further, I'll file the bugs with > the Caml group or the Debian maintainer. :))) Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners