Bug#821179: mpi-defaults: Please add powerpcspe architecture support

Sat Apr 16 14:52:42 UTC 2016

On 04/16/2016 04:33 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>> We could still revist this in the future.
> 
> Not really.
> Changing the default (as we did in s390x recently) implies a painful
> transition where you have to rebuild everything in the correct order (or
> they just ftbfs).

Ok, I wasn't aware of that. But I assume that Matthias' decision
is correct and powerpcspe isn't too different from regular powerpc,
it's basically just powerpc without an FPU and a slightly different
ABI.

Adrian

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