Subject: [bug#47615] [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 16:45:30 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/guile.scm (guile-3.0)[arguments]: On powerpc add two
> phases to adjust for 32-bit big-endian systems.

[...]

> +                 (add-after 'unpack 'adjust-bootstrap-flags
> +                   (lambda _
> +                     ;; Upstream knows about suggested solution.
> +                     ;; https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45214

The first comment line should preferably mention the problem, like:

  ;; Change optimization flags to work around crash on
  ;; 32-bit big-endian architectures: <https://bugs.gnu.org/45214>.

> +                     (substitute* "bootstrap/Makefile.in"
> +                       (("^GUILE_OPTIMIZATIONS.*")
> +                        "GUILE_OPTIMIZATIONS = -O1 -Oresolve-primitives -Ocps\n"))))
> +                 (add-after 'unpack 'remove-failing-tests
> +                   (lambda _
> +                     ;; TODO: Discover why this test fails on powerpc-linux
> +                     (delete-file "test-suite/standalone/test-out-of-memory"))))))

I’m surprised removing the executable works.  See
‘guile-2.2-skip-oom-test.patch’.

Ludo’.