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[PATCH 0/6] gnu: Update Racket to 8.6. Add Zuo.

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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> ist.tugraz.at>
To: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>, 57050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
Subject: [bug#57050] [PATCH v2 09/13] gnu: chez-scheme-for-racket: Suport all systems.
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:02:53 +0200

Am Donnerstag, dem 11.08.2022 um 07:08 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> On systems for which Racket's variant of Chez Scheme cannot generate
> native code, it can use a 'pbarch' machine type: a variant of the
> ``portable bytecode'' backend specialized to word size and
> endianness.
> This allows Racket CS to replace Racket BC on those systems while
> maintaining comparable performance. (Racket BC lacks JIT support for
> those systems anyway.) It also lets us provide a Chez Scheme package
> on
> all systems Guix supports.
> 
> This patch adds 'pbarch' support to both 'chez-scheme-for-racket' and
> 'racket-vm-cs', but it does not change the Racket VM implementation
> used
> for the 'racket' and 'racket-minimal' packages.
> 
> * gnu/packages/chez.scm (nix-system->pbarch-machine-type): New
> variable.
> (chez-scheme-for-racket)[inputs]: Use 'libffi' for non-native
> systems.
> [arguments]<#:configure-flags>: Always supply '-m='. Add applicable
> flags for non-native systems.
> [supported-systems]: Use '%supported-systems'.
As a follow-up, you could probably inline %supported-systems now, no?


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