Re: MIPS support

[Christopher Baines]

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> writes:

> To Christopher Baines
>> At least the main blocker for me is the lack of substitutes for the
>> things that fail to build with QEMU. So maybe one or a few machines
>> which were able to build those specific things would be sufficient to
>> provide some substitutes.
>
> I still not have tried mips (arm*, powerpc* and even there I still do not have
> gone very far, but only tried cross-compilation which has it own set
> of problems).
>
> Can you elaborate a bit, compilation through qemu should be slow but
> mostly work,
> at least I hope. We should have a look at debian's arches MLs, there
> are a lot of
> efforts made to fix and upstream things, being done there.

I forget if I've replied, but I tried building hello using QEMU, and
this was the failure:

qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
g++: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program cc1plus)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1099: c-family/c-common.o] Error 4
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating cc1plugin-config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
/gnu/store/48y1i9jxilgvg4n0r0mwsvzgac9yvr20-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/bash 
../../gcc-7.5.0/gcc/../move-if-change tmp-automata.c insn-automata.c
echo timestamp > s-automata
make[2]: Leaving directory 
'/tmp/guix-build-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv-0/build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4215: all-gcc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv-0/build'
make: *** [Makefile:881: all] Error 2
command "make" "-j" "12" 
"LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/nlw1v60wfzvf8hccfiyxaa7qq76cpxfh-glibc-bootstrap-0/lib
 -Wl,-dynamic-linker 
-Wl,/gnu/store/nlw1v60wfzvf8hccfiyxaa7qq76cpxfh-glibc-bootstrap-0/lib/ld.so.1" 
failed with status 2
builder for 
`/gnu/store/bfsginlm0wbkwxzy5a39j6kin562ay34-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv' failed 
with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/bfsginlm0wbkwxzy5a39j6kin562ay34-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv 
failed

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