On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 8:59 PM Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
>
> > Unfortunaly, the CI cross builds aren't working at the moment (the
> > buildenv images are based on Debian Buster ("stable" at the time images
> > were built), and nettle's ci scripts do apt-get update and apt-get
> > install, which now attempts to get Bullseye packages (new "stable" since
> > a week ago)).
>
> Images now updated to debian stable (thanks, Daiki!). But we'll have to
> drop mips tests for now, since current setup assumes archs under tests
> are available in debian, and mips has been discontinued as a debian
> release architecture. Other cross builds now work (change to drop mips
> is on the master-updates branch). If you have ideas on how to revive mips
> tests, that's welcome, but for now we'll have to do without.
>
> I would like to keep testing on big-endian. s390x is big-endian, right?
> And so is powerpc64 (non -el). So it would be nice to configure cross
> tests on one of those platforms configured with --disable-assembler, to
> test portability of the C code. Are s390x cross tools and qemu-user in
> good enough shape (it's an official debian release arch), or is
> powerpc64 a better option?
>
Yes, s390x is big-endian and it's good for such purposes. Along being
officially supported in debian releases, it runs natively on remote
instance in gitlab CI.
regards,
Mamone
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