Re: Building armel on arm64
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:18:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Jul 30, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> >
> > Also, this machine does have neon so it's not even armhf baseline. And so
> > many packages compile but don't test. Thus, regressions from building on
> > arm64 need not just hardware but also manpowers to detect.
>
> But why should compiling ARMv7 on ARMv8 automatically change the baseline
> when it’s actually a hardwired configure option in gcc?
There's way too many packages that do compile-time detection.
> By the same logic, lots of the packages we build on ARMv7 machines for
> armel wouldn’t work on ARMv5.
And many probably don't, but such gear is so weak that a good part of
packages simply have no one running them.
> Plus, we can build on the experience that openSUSE made with building
> ARMv6/7 on ARMv8. Why are we ignoring that?
How do you propose to do that other than sometimes digging through their
packaging for a patch here and there?
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