[GAP Forum] HPC gap

[Luca Giuzzi]

Dear Forum,
 is there any way to compile HPC gap on a PPC64 (little endian)
architecture?

 I have seen that luajit-2.0 (which is used by ward) has not been ported to
this architecture (nor is luajit-2.1 yet). I suppose it might be possible
to preprocess the source files of gap on a different host, but I would like
to ask whether:

 a) this would actually be possible and/or there is a "sort of a procedure"
 b) there might be other unexpected "issues" to expect with hpc gap e.g.
with the garbage collector given that the architecture is unsupported.

Incidentally, gap 4.8.6 (soon to be updated to 4.8.7) works nicely on that
machine and apparently without problem, at least for the kind of
computations I am interested in.

Best,
 luca