From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is IceCat now only 'supported' on Intel-systems?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 23:58:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpfjmf32.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201201529.GA29509@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Thu, 1 Dec 2016 22:15:29 +0200")
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:39:40PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> According to:
>>
>> https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?filter=icecat#tabs-removed
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why this happened?
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> Debian includes Firefox packages for 'armhf' and 'mips64el', so it's
>> obviously possible to get it working on those platforms.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Mark
>
> It turns out libjpeg-turbo depends on nasm, which was incorrectly marked
> as only supporting Intel hardware.
Again, there’s 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 = ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux")
scheme@(guile-user)> (package-supported-systems nasm)
$16 = ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux")
scheme@(guile-user)> (package-transitive-supported-systems icecat)
$17 = ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
and <https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?filter=icecat>.
Am I missing something?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-01 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-01 2:39 Why is IceCat now only 'supported' on Intel-systems? Mark H Weaver
2016-12-01 14:13 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-12-01 15:29 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-12-01 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-01 20:15 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-12-01 22:58 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-12-02 1:47 ` Mark H Weaver
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