As a mitigation, I'm asking the pycdlib maintainer the possibility of also shipping wheels:
https://github.com/clalancette/pycdlib/issues/53 ** Bug watch added: github.com/clalancette/pycdlib/issues #53 https://github.com/clalancette/pycdlib/issues/53 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1897783 Title: avocado tests not running on aarch64 host Status in QEMU: New Bug description: $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal $ make check-venv VENV /home/phil/qemu/build/tests/venv PIP /home/phil/qemu/tests/requirements.txt ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /home/phil/qemu/build/tests/venv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-w1h2bh4a/pycdlib/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-w1h2bh4a/pycdlib/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-ic25ctcg cwd: /tmp/pip-install-w1h2bh4a/pycdlib/ Complete output (6 lines): usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel' ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Failed building wheel for pycdlib $ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1897783/+subscriptions