Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:19:26AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:44 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread peter green
Antonio Terceiro wrote: I had to force gcc-4.6 some time ago because building with gcc-4.7 (the default at the time IIRC) caused segmentation faults. Looking at newer comments at the corresponding bug logs (#674541) there are suggestions about gcc flags that fix the issue, so I tried them here

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. awesome Thus I'd love it if anyone else could help go

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
suggestion, wookey: i'd love to help... but obviously with no hardware that's kinda hard: is there a clear set of instructions somewhere - a wiki page for example - on how to debootstrap an arm64 qemu so that even if it's dead slow it's still possible to help out?

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Gevers
[Dropping d-devel] On 15-05-14 03:10, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Anyone who is interested in doing this work, or just has some idea of how much work is

Re: [Pkg-pascal-devel] arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Hi All, On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 19:31 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: [Dropping d-devel] On 15-05-14 03:10, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Anyone who is

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is that under control? Ruby seems to be at the bottom of the build-dep

Re: [Core] [Pkg-pascal-devel] arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 15.05.2014 20:35, schrieb Abou Al Montacir: Hi All, On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 19:31 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: [Dropping d-devel] On 15-05-14 03:10, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 15.05.2014 21:20, Ian Campbell pisze: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is that under control?

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 21:45 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 15.05.2014 21:20, Ian Campbell pisze: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 15.05.2014 22:29, Ian Campbell pisze: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 21:45 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 15.05.2014 21:20, Ian Campbell pisze: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le jeudi 15 mai 2014 à 02:10 +0100, Wookey a écrit : Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Julia Note that currently Julia is only available on i386/amd64 (so no armel/armhf for

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:10:39AM +0100, Wookey wrote: GHCi (ghc is done, but not ghci - is this hard?) This is hard. You need either an LLVM-based port or a native code generator, and in either case I think you need some linker support in GHC. Both of these are serious compiler engineer

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread peter green
Antonio Terceiro wrote: The code is ported, but starting at 1.9 Ruby needs an existing Ruby interpreter to build. Ruby 1.8 needs only gcc-4.6 ... which needs patchutils. So we got ourselves a loop there. I would think that during bootstrapping core packages like gcc and patchutils would be

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Wookey
+++ peter green [2014-05-16 03:43 +0100]: Antonio Terceiro wrote: The code is ported, but starting at 1.9 Ruby needs an existing Ruby interpreter to build. Ruby 1.8 needs only gcc-4.6 ... which needs patchutils. So we got ourselves a loop there. I would think that during bootstrapping core

arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64suite=sid

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread peter green
Wookey wrote: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. Cool, have you seen any news on when we might actually be able to buy the stuff (which afaict is a

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
+++ peter green [2014-05-15 03:29 +0100]: Wookey wrote: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. Cool, have you seen any news on when we might actually be able to