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bug#19749: orpheus does not build on mips64
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
bug#19749: orpheus does not build on mips64 |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:04:38 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:
> the orpheus package fails to build on mips64 with the following message:
>
> checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type
> This script, last modified 2001-07-12, has failed to recognize
> the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
> download the most up to date version of the config scripts from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/
>
> Orpheus itself seems to be unmaintained (the last release dates from 2006).
The config.guess problem can be easily worked around by passing
--build=<triplet> to configure. I would suggest something similar to
what I did in the gmp package to get it working on armhf:
(arguments `(#:configure-flags
'(;; Build a "fat binary", with routines for several
;; sub-architectures.
"--enable-fat"
"--enable-cxx"
;; FIXME: gmp-6.0.0a's config.guess fails on
;; multi-core armhf systems.
,@(if (%current-target-system)
'()
(let ((triplet
(nix-system->gnu-triplet (%current-system))))
(list (string-append "--build=" triplet)))))))
Would you like to try this?
> I would suggest to either drop the package, or to disable it on mips.
Please, let's not disable builds on MIPS unless it is clear that it
would be a very difficult job to get it working.
Mark