[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#760994: Bug#760994: Support ppc64el platform

[Jérémy Lal]

Le mardi 09 septembre 2014 à 15:19 -0300, Breno Leitao a écrit :
> Package: libv8-3.14
> Version: 3.14.5.8-8
> Severity: normal
> User: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: ppc64el
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to enable libv8 to build on ppc64el. We have the patches ready for
> v8 in a public github and we started to send the patches upstream.
> 
> The public github with the patches are at:
> 
> https://github.com/andrewlow/node.git (inside directory deps/v8ppc).
> 
> So, the next step here will be creating a patch that enables ppc64el based on
> the patches from this github repository. As soon as we have the patches
> upstream, we can make a second release that would turn everything upstream.
> Does it work?

The only thing that worries me is that upstream V8 doesn't seem to be
supporting that ppc port. Is it ?

Jérémy.