On May 5, 6:35 am, Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:
> > On May 4, 8:43 pm, Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz>
>
> > wrote:
> > > > same problem if I try building a standalone ecl, and if  I use gcc
> > > > 4.0.1, too.
> > > > So this looks like the combination of OSX 10.5 and PPC that is not
> > > > working here, nothing Sage-specific.
>
> > > > Dima
>
> > > > On May 4, 3:47 pm, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On MacOSX 10.5.8 (PPC G4) I cannot proceed past ecl.
> > > > > I get crashes (sort or random) after bare.lsp is loaded,
> > > > > ie after the log lines
> > > > > ;;; About to load cmp/load.lsp
> > > > > ;;;
> > > > > ;;; Now we are in shape to do something useful.
> > > > > ;;; End of bare.lsp
>
> > > Darn, I wish I still had my G4, this is familiar. Can you post the whole
> > > log?
>
> > please seehttp://www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~dima/tmp/ppc_ecl_problem_4.7.rc1.gz
> > (there are repeated tries to restart the build at the end, sorry...)
>
> > there are strange messages about sse there, e.g.
> > Unknown symbol: ext::sse-pack-as-elt-type
>
> > Unknown symbol: ext::sse-pack
>
> > Does it misconfigure? (it's has no SSE support, this machine)
>
> The sse messages are not abnormal. I get them on a amd64 machine which has sse
> instructions. I know for a fact that ecl has an allergy too altivec
> instructions that results in that kind of stuff but it isn't in your CFLAGS,
> unless it has been forced down inside gcc. 
> Seehttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308909
> in particular the log with gcc-4.3.4.
> So could you try to resume the build with:
> CFLAGS="-mno-altivec -mabi=no-altivec" make
> I am hoping that these options are as valid for ppc-macos as they
> are for ppc-linux.

Indeed, this helps! Although the CFLAGS should be passed to configure.
(just 'CFLAGS="-mno-altivec -mabi=no-altivec" make' does not pass
CFLAGS anywhere!)
This is now trac #11297

> You didn't have any problem with previous ecl did you?

No. (Sage 4.6 builds and works on this machine)

>
> Francois
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