PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 1 09:32:59 UTC 2009


Tom Lane wrote:
> > [ ppc64 horror story snipped ]
>
> Well, I'm by no means wedded to ppc64; I just want *some* BE
> architecture in the primary set.  Maybe a reasonable compromise would be
> to include ppc but not ppc64?  That would cover basic BE portability
> issues, if not the occasional BE-and-64-bit bug.  And it would halve the
> present workload of the PPC builders, which might help the build time
> issue.

Well, AFAIK ppc32 also has this "TOC" mess I was complaining about, it just 
has room for twice as many entries because pointers are half the size, so in 
practice projects trigger the awfully low ppc64 limit first.

        Kevin Kofler




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