Hi James, I have access to a few machines but I don't think there's a PowerPC among them. I don't know if it's possible to install qemu in Windows and then run a PowerPC virtual machine in that. I currently use VirtualBox to run various flavours of Linux and FreeBSD but of course that only works for X86. If you can get me access to a real machine that would certainly help.
I've already prepared a release of 5.7 and I'm inclined to go ahead with that anyway. There will almost certainly be other bug fixes to include so it's likely that 5.7.1 won't be that far ahead.
Regards, David
On 21/03/2017 13:08, James Clarke wrote:
Hi David, I can reproduce this (or at least a very similar issue) seemingly every time on 32-bit PowerPC. All three of my uploads to Debian failed to build on it (across different machines) and I can reproduce it on another box. It happens with both jessie and unstable; below is the state of all the threads when I built it on unstable with two calls to "make compiler" followed by a "make check" (though ./poly --script Tests/Succeed/Test166.ML also hangs, so the test harness and running other tests first is irrelevant). Do you have access to a PowerPC machine you can put Debian on? If not I can probably arrange getting you remote access to one.
Regards, James