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  6. From: gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend)
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  8. Subject: Re: rswitch.s hack to GNU systems on powerpc
  9. Date: 23 May 2003 10:24:15 -0700
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  19. In article <87y90x7r31.fsf@gnu.org>, Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> wrote:
  20. > 
  21. > i just adapted ppc_darwin/'s rswitch.s to work in GNU/Linux systems
  22. > running on a ppc machine (macintosh ones, for example).
  23.     ...
  24. > Untar it, put it in config/unix/ppc_gnulinux, and then do
  25.     ...
  26.  
  27. That path would seem to indicate that you're using an old version
  28. of Icon.  Have you tried an unmodified Icon 9.4.2?  It should build
  29. just fine on a PPC Linux or Macintosh system, although an unrelated
  30. problem with large integers has been reported.
  31.  
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  33. Gregg Townsend         Staff Scientist      The University of Arizona
  34. gmt@cs.arizona.edu     Computer Science     Tucson, Arizona, USA
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