[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#631073: Bug#631073: Attention Ulrik Sverdrup re Debian bug 631073

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Ulrik Sverdrup wrote:

> Don't worry, that was probably the best thing to do. I'm back now and
> I'll answer.
> 
> My guess is that it's simple -- ppc32 vs ppc64. I have ghc version
> 7.0.4-7 and ghci works fine.

Yes, they are both running a complete 32 bit user space, but the ppc64
machine has a 64 bit kernel (32 bit kernel won't boot).

The other thing is that your G4 CPU does not have altivec instructions.

Erik
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