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From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: bio package star
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 22:16:10 +1000
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On 07/07/16 17:07, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>
>> On 07/07/16 15:52, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>>> http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1295673/log/raw Star currently fails to bu=
ild
>>> on i686. Looking at the logs, it freaks out at an unsigned long int,
>>> __uint128_t, which as far as I know isn't supported on 32-bit systems=
,
>>> so it looks to me like we should disable support for i686 and armhf.
>> Agreed, it seems likely that this bionformatics tool never worked on
>> these systems. I will disable builds for these platforms.
> Thank you.  This seems to be the right approach for now.  Maybe we
> should also file a bug report upstream?  At least we=E2=80=99ll know if=
 they
> would be willing to support systems other than x86_64.

Pushed as 'c11f79a'.

I decided not to file a bug report since I noted that the README=20
specifies that a 64 bit system is required.

Thanks,
ben