Re: [Sbcl-devel] Alpha, HPPA support at risk

On 3/12/20 10:23 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Moreover, just because we have tried to keep the backends compiling
>> gives no guarantee that they actually run; I'd be slightly surprised if
>> they don't crash pretty quickly in cold-init.
> 
> I sent in some fixes, but so far I haven't been able to get SBCL to run
> on Alpha or HPPA, both crash in cold-init. But that's also the case
> for MIPS when I tested.
> 
> Generally, I try to help whereever I can but I'm by no means a Lisp
> expert. There are Alpha and HPPA porters around in Debian and Gentoo
> which might be interested to help.
I'm working on getting SBCL buildable on Debian using CLISP. Then we get
a CI for all architectures for free which does not depend on a working
SBCL compiler being available on the FTP servers.

Adrian