On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 06:20:55PM +0200, pollux wrote: >On 04/26/2016 09:29 PM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >> Source: efitools >> Version: 1.4.2-2 >> Severity: important >> Justification: fails to build from source >> >> Thanks for fixing efitools's Build-Depends setting! Automated builds >> now get further, but still fail on i386, with >> >> In file included from simple_file.c:7:0: >> /usr/include/efi/efi.h:35:21: fatal error: efibind.h: No such file or >> irectory >> >> (kfreebsd-amd64 builds also still fail, but with a different error >> I'll report separately.) >> >> The i386 version of this header turns out to be in >> /usr/include/efi/ia32, not /usr/include/efi/i686. I see no sign of a >> config script that would report this location, so I suppose efitools >> will need to hardcode the mapping. >> >> I also noticed two further complications that will affect linking on >> i386: the crt0 file is likewise named crt0-efi-ia32.o, and 32-bit >> gnu-efi libraries are in /usr/lib32, which isn't in the default search >> path. >> >> Could you please take a look? > >Hi, > >This specific bug is fixed in the upcoming upload (new upstream release >1.7.0) >However, a new problem appears: >ld: i386 architecture of input file `HelloWorld.o' is incompatible with >i386:x86-64 output > >Indeed, on PC architectures, EFI executables are 64-bits EXE files.
Ummm, what? 32-bit i386 (ia32) should be supported just fine. If it's not working, that's just a bug. >I think the solution is to restrict the build to linux-amd64, and mark >the package as Multi-arch: foreign, however that would cover only the >embedded EFI files, not the tools to access UEFI variables. >That said, these tools use the efivars pseudo-filesystem and will only >work on Linux. > >So, I think the next upload will restrict the package to linux-amd64 only. Please don't do that. There are *4* Debian Linux architectures that should be able to work here: amd64, i386, arm64 and armhf. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray