On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:58:50PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 05.08.2018 o 16:36, Jeff Johnson pisze:
> > So you are recommending using 14 lines (with comments) of spec file
> > goop that uses 2 %ifarch build section tests in order to set/unset a
> > macro.
> > 
> > There's further baggage in spec files needed to add a BR, pass an
> > option to configure, add libraries to link, etc
> 
> Spec files are often wrote in 'I do not know other archs than x86' way.
> I remember going through valgrind support for aarch64 few years ago
> where changes to upstream valgrind were simple but all those packages
> where %{valgrind_archs} was done in "%ifarch x86_64 i686" way required
> patching and then patching...
> 
> From what I remember there is no architecture supported by Fedora
> without Valgrind support. We got rid of s390 (32bit) and risc-v does not
> count yet.

As you say, for riscv64 we will want to disable valgrind initially,
but eventually hope to get it enabled.

I don't have the link handy but I talked with upstream a while back
and they (quite rightly) wish to wait and see how popular RISC-V
becomes before thinking about supporting it.

Rich.

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