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Re: Dropping valgrind from armel?



On lun, ott 28, 2013 at 09:36:22 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 6:02 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:24:28PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>long story short, a couple years ago armel builds for valgrind were enabled
> >>(despite the fact that valgrind only supports ARMv7) by building the package in
> >>cross-compile mode and forcing the -march=armv7-a option on buildds that didn't
> >>support ARMv7 natively. This was done so that ARMv7 armel systems could use
> >>valgrind (see #592614).
> >>
> >>This has sort of worked for a while, until a couple months ago when valgrind
> >>started FTBFS on armel (#720409). This was a simple routine rebuild for the
> >>openmpi transition, so I'm inclined to think that I did not broke anything
> >>myself. My next upload 1:3.8.1-5 (a month later) still failed to build, making
> >>me think that this is not a transient failure.
> >>
> >>Hence the idea: what about dropping valgrind from armel? Or alternatively, is
> >>there anyone who cares about valgrind on armel and wants to debug and try to
> >>fix this (possibly without making the original kinda ugly hack any worse)?
> >
> >So, no one? In the next few days I'm going to upload a new version disabling
> >armel builds and ask the release team to drop it as well. If it turns out that
> >many people actually used valgrind on armel, I guess I can re-enable it later
> >(once it works again).
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> 
> Are you disabling all armel builds?  Or just valgrind on armel?

Not sure if I understood the question correctly, but I was referring only to
valgrind's armel build (I don't quite have the power to eliminate a whole
Debian port I'm afraid ;)

Also, please CC me since I'm not subscibed to the list (I forgot to mention
that before).

Cheers

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