Unable to bootstrap SBCL on MIPS64 LE architecture

[Igor]

I'm trying to bootstrap SBCL version 1.4.12 on MIPS64 LE machine using sbcl-1.0.28-mipsel-linux-binary.tar.bz official build downloaded from the website. When doing so, I encountered problem that looks like:

obj/from-xc/src/code/late-format.lisp-obj
obj/from-xc/src/code/late-globaldb.lisp-obj
; SB!Loader: (278+563+10594+161+12015) structs/consts/funs/methods/other
[building initial core file in "output/cold-sbcl.core":

debugger invoked on a TYPE-ERROR:
  The value #(0 0 0 0) is not of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) (65536)).

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Abort building SBCL.
  1: Exit debugger, returning to top level.

((SETF SB!FASL::BVREF) 76 #S(SB!FASL::BIGVEC :OUTER-VECTOR #(#(0 0 0 0))) 0)
0]

When performing bootstrap procedure using latest version of CLISP I was able to pass this step but encountered later failure (with dropping to SBCL's ldb) when performing warm-init step.

There was also found a similar bug report on Gentoo bugzilla: https://673180.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=557808 but it is related to SPARC architecture.

[Stas Boukarev (stassats)]

Yes, 1.0.28 can't build it, but 1.4.10 can cross compile the current version. That drops into ldb, but that's another matter.

[Igor (nir-ginko)]

It became possible to build it like:

1.0.28 -> 1.4.6 (before 1.4.8, which uses BIGVEC in genesis.lisp) -> 1.4.10 -> 1.4.12. No ldb, no problems at all.