[clean-list] Linux PowerPC Version

Brent Fulgham brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com
Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:16:40 -0800


I would be interested in any makefile or source changes you needed to do this so I can update the Debian packages to build a PowerPC version.

Thanks,

-Brent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clean-list-admin@cs.kun.nl [mailto:clean-list-admin@cs.kun.nl]On
> Behalf Of Marco Kesseler
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 3:09 PM
> To: clean-list@cs.kun.nl
> Subject: [clean-list] Linux PowerPC Version
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> FYI, I have built (bootstrapped) a PowerPC version of Clean 2.1 for
> Linux. I will try to get this online somewhere. In the meantime, if
> people are interested, I can mail a gzipped archive with binaries and
> the changed sources (almost 2MB).
> 
> The core functionality works: I have compiled the compiler itself as a
> test, but some more advanced things will not work. Some things won't
> because they are not supported on Linux, others because I had other
> priorities. The archive contains some readme's with additional
> information.
> 
> While hunting down problems in the runtime system, and learning a bit
> about PowerPC assembly, I documented part of the garbage collector
> sources. So if people are interested in a glimpse of the internal node
> structures in Clean, they might want to have a look at that (it's not
> complete though, and probably still quite hard to follow).
> 
> have fun,
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
> 
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