Bug#681808: Enable powerpc build

[Ben Collins]

I'm definitely here to stay for powerpc. I've fixed ghci and worked on several other compilers that were broken on powerpc (just in the past few weeks).

I've confirmed this working on Ubuntu powerpc. Adam Conrad is currently looking to bootstrap for Ubuntu quantal powerpc, we just wanted to have this in Debian too, so we can make sure we aren't off-by-one on debian/control.

Thanks

On Jul 16, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Christoph Egger wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Ben Collins <ben.c at servergy.com> writes:
>> Package: sbcl
>> Version: 2:1.0.57.0-2
>> 
>> I was able to bootstrap powerpc without problems using the binaries downloaded from sbcl.org for linux-ppc. Please bootstrap this and enable powerpc builds.
> 
>  Building on !x86 was disabled due to noone being around who is able to
> acctually debug compiler bugs there. And we have seen issues on non-x86
> architectures in the past which are not a priority upstream either. Are
> you / the ppc porters able to step in and help debug problems as they
> arise?
> 
> Regards
> 
>    Christoph
> 
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