Re: Packaging Survey - May 2009

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:47:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/27/2009 07:41 PM, Jerry James wrote:
> 
> > 
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/cmucl
> > 
> > Perhaps it is because CMUCL is available on 32-bit systems only, so
> > somebody with a 64-bit system noticed that it was "missing".
> 
> Very likely. This is all direct feedback from fedora-list and
> fedoraforum.org primarily. So I guess the user was using 64-bit. I will
> ask him. Why isn't CMUCL available for 64-bit systems?

Because no one managed to write a code generator for x86-64
and PPC yet:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185085

Rich.

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