Original bug ID: 1416
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Samuel Colin
Version: 3.06
OS: GNU/Linux debian woody 3.0r0
Submission from: carene.inrets.fr (137.121.1.8)

Hello,
I simply report a "missing feature" in compilation of OCaml on sparc64.
The ./configure phase tells that native-code compilation is not supported,
whereas in fact it is, but in a 32-bit userland.
Further description:
"uname -a" reports "sparc64"
The configure script knows about sparc, but not sparc64, so native-code
compilation is reported as not supported.
Setting up an environment variable (FAKE_SPARC) to "yes" makes "uname -a" report
"sparc", and then the configure script reports it can compile natively.
The obtained executables are flawlessly working, as the userland is 32-bit.
Moreover, the ./configure detects the ability to do 64-bits optimizations, as
the machine (an ultra 5) is 64-bits.
So, I propose two solutions : add sparc64 in the list of supported
architectures, or when sparc64 is detected, replace it by sparc (at least under
a gnu/linux OS).