On 20/04/24 at 15:39 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 20.04.2024 15:33, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > [..] > > This is part of a mass rebuild, first building on arm64 and then on > > armhf and armel. So I'm not suggesting anything. :-) > > Aha. > > > Is this failing because the build is trying to build arch:all packages, > > that can only be built on amd64? If so, the bug severity could be > > lowered, clearly. > > Well. Yes, this is exactly the case. qemu uses quite a few cross-compilers > to > build various firmware components. This is arch-all package qemu-system-data. > Most of these cross-compilers are available on x86 _only_, including the > mentioned gcc-powerpc64-linux-gnu. > > I especially made these deps to be in Build-Depends-Indep only, - to be able > to (re)build qemu on non-x86 by using `apt --arch-only`. > > I can't say this is a bug to begin with, - wrt lowering its severity. If it > is a bug, it's a bug in gcc, not qemu (since it is gcc which does not provide > these cross-compilers on all architectures). Or in the build environment.
Sure. The only reason for leaving a bug behind is that, if there had been a "FTBFS everywhere except amd64 when building arch-indep packages", I would have caught this and not filed this bug. wishlist + wontfix would be OK. Lucas
