From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Gmp test failure on armhf Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 10:15:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20150704081554.GA4427@debian> References: <20150626093215.GA3593@debian> <87d20fsh2z.fsf@gnu.org> <20150703201207.GB26201@debian> <87ioa04cyp.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBIcF-0005nx-UR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 04:16:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBIcF-0001Vg-0M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2015 04:16:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ioa04cyp.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 03:08:14AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > A while back on IRC, Ludovic agreed to my proposal to pass --build to > configure by default in gnu-build-system, a change to be made hopefully > in the next core-updates cycle. After that, config.guess will not be > used. That sounds good to me and would indeed render my patch superfluous. > As for NEON, I had originally followed Debian's armhf decision to > compile code that doesn't require NEON support, but have since changed > my mind about that. It seems that the Debian porters made that decision > to support a couple of hardware devices that may have been important at > the time, but that time has passed. I've since learned that NEON is a > common target for modern highly optimized ARM assembly code, and that we > should assume it as a baseline. I agree with that. Andreas