[Pkg-julia-devel] dsfmt ftbfs on ppc64el

[Graham Inggs]

On 7 November 2015 at 15:08, Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org> wrote:
> I commented out lines 11-13 from debain/rules and the package built
> and passed the tests.
>
> #ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),ppc64 ppc64el))
> #CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --enable-altivec
> #endif

I'm inclined to disable altivec for ppc64el and leave it enabled for
ppc64 for now.

You can get access to ppc64el virtual machines in the OpenPOWER MiniCloud [1].
Alternatively, Ubuntu have recently enabled PPAs for ppc64el [2] which
can be used for test builds.

[1] http://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/
[2] http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/ppas-for-ppc64el