Re: Bug#1117549: sbcl breaks buildapp autopkgtest on riscv64: Missing required foreign symbol
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi riscv64 porters,
>
> ping.
>
> On 11/7/25 23:53, Christoph Berg wrote:
> >>> Rather than this being RC for all architectures, I would say the
> >>> proper "fix" would be to remove sbcl on riscv64 since that
> >>> architecture is new.
> >
> > My argument is that the actual problem is that sbcl is now available
> > on riscv64. If that architecture had not appeared, buildapp and
> > pgloader (and sbcl) would not be buggy.
>
>
> I don't like these arguments, although I understand them very much. I
> was hoping that you'd see the commitment of being a porter to at least
> have a look and report back, even if you can't fix it. sbcl is a
> compiler, so at the root of a chain of things. In my humble opinion,
> compilers that are part of testing on riscv64 should be higher up on
> your list of packages to take care of.
>
I do not know why I did not notice this and put this on my todo list,
Thanks for the reminder this again, I or we(riscv ports) will have a
look at this.
BR,
Bo
> Paul
>
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