From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Why is IceCat now only 'supported' on Intel-systems? Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:47:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87vav3drv6.fsf@netris.org> References: <87wpfjmf32.fsf@gnu.org> <87y400fk43.fsf@netris.org> <20161201201529.GA29509@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCcwm-0005fD-Ag for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:47:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCcwi-0002Lt-2M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:47:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wpfjmf32.fsf@gnu.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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > Efraim Flashner skribis: > >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:39:40PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> According to: >>>=20 >>> https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?filter=3Dicecat#tabs-removed >>>=20 >>> the jobs for icecat on armhf and mips64el were removed in evaluation >>> 109381 (corresponding to commit 663d5b5), but were present in the >>> previous evaluation 109380 (commit cd65d60). >>>=20 >>> Can anyone tell me why this happened? >>>=20 >>> I guess that the 'supported-systems' field of some package that 'icecat' >>> depends on was recently changed, but I was unable to find anything >>> obvious by grepping through the output of "git log -p". >>>=20 >>> Debian includes Firefox packages for 'armhf' and 'mips64el', so it's >>> obviously possible to get it working on those platforms. >>>=20 >>> I find it disturbing that we seem to be in the habit of removing >>> non-Intel systems from 'supported-systems' fields in packages that other >>> distros are able to get working on non-Intel. These are bugs to be >>> fixed, not swept under the rug to get them out of sight. >>>=20 >>> Mark >> >> It turns out libjpeg-turbo depends on nasm, which was incorrectly marked >> as only supporting Intel hardware. > > Again, there=E2=80=99s no such problem on current master AFAICS: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix) > scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu packages assembly) > scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu packages gnuzilla) > scheme@(guile-user)> (package-supported-systems icecat) > $15 =3D ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux") > scheme@(guile-user)> (package-supported-systems nasm) > $16 =3D ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux") > scheme@(guile-user)> (package-transitive-supported-systems icecat) > $17 =3D ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux") > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I believe that Efraim fixed the issue in commit 4181c9393d46bb8e24af1970c0e2adbcbfb2c639, shortly after my initial post in this thread. > and . The URL above shows that the icecat jobs for armhf and mips64el were removed, but that was before Efraim's fix. Thanks, Mark