Re: [Chicken-hackers] Chicken 5.1.0 on Debian/armel architecture

[felix . winkelmann]

> Hello Felix,
> I'm contacting you about Chicken 5.1.0 and armel architecture.
>
> Some days ago I uploaded the amd64 package to Debian unstable,
> so our porting teams could recompile it on every architecture that
> Debian supports; unfortunately the build process didn't go well
> everywhere, as you can see from this report page:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=chicken&suite=sid
>
> For now, we can ignore the architectures with a grey background on that
> page, as they're not full supported by Debian, but the armel fail is
> serious because it prevents Chicken migration from unstable to testing
> distribution.
>
> I'm not so up-to-date on chicken internals (and on armel even worse),
> so I was thinking if you could take a look at build log and tell me
> if you have a clue about what went wrong and how we can fix it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Hi!

Thanks for the report. I'm currently on vacation but I'll put this on our
bugtracker[1] and will look at it next week. "armel" should be basically
the same as a raspberry pi, right? That would be a machine I could
use for testing.


felix

[1] https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1637