From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: bio package star Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:07:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87lh1eylhp.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> References: <20160707055246.GA17506@debian-netbook> <577DEF3C.6020509@uq.edu.au> 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]:36985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bL3PV-0002qJ-De for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:07:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bL3PQ-0000MN-BX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:07:44 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:39435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bL3PQ-0000MI-0c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:07:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <577DEF3C.6020509@uq.edu.au> 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: Ben Woodcroft Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ben Woodcroft writes: > On 07/07/16 15:52, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1295673/log/raw Star currently fails to build >> 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=20 > 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. ~~ Ricardo