[Sbcl-devel] 0.9 fails to build from source (PPC/Linux)

[R. M. <rm...@mh...>]

Hello developers,

SBCL 0.9 fails to build on my (DEbian) GunLinux/PPC box. The compile seems
to proceed fine but the test run stops with the following error:

 debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread 9748:
  The assertion (RAISES-ERROR? (SCALE-FLOAT 1.0 MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM)
                               FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW) failed.

Looking at the source of this test (tests/float.pure.lisp) is seems as if
this is a known problem:

 #-(or darwin x86-64) ;; bug 372 / 378
 (progn
   (assert (raises-error? (scale-float 1.0 most-positive-fixnum)
                         floating-point-overflow))
   (assert (raises-error? (scale-float 1.0d0 (1+ most-positive-fixnum))
                         floating-point-overflow)))


Might it be possible that the feature test should read:

 #-(or ppc darwin x86-64)

Adding this makes _this_ test pass ... more later.

 Cheers Ralf Mattes