[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#631073: Bug#631073: Attention Ulrik Sverdrup re Debian bug 631073

[Ulrik Sverdrup]

2012/1/10 Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at mega-nerd.com>:
> Ulrik Sverdrup wrote:
>
>> Don't worry, that was probably the best thing to do. I'm back now and
>> I'll answer.
>>
>> My guess is that it's simple -- ppc32 vs ppc64. I have ghc version
>> 7.0.4-7 and ghci works fine.
>
> Yes, they are both running a complete 32 bit user space, but the ppc64
> machine has a 64 bit kernel (32 bit kernel won't boot).
>
> The other thing is that your G4 CPU does not have altivec instructions.
>
> Erik

It does have altivec, and it appears to be detected by linux (see
cpuinfo output, second line)