Bug#1042980: gnome-shell: FTBFS on mips64el, mipsel: perf-* tests fail

[YunQiang Su]

Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> 于2023年8月4日周五 00:33写道：
>
> Source: gnome-shell
> Version: 44.3-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs experimental help
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
> User: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: mips64el mipsel
>
> gnome-shell 44 builds successfully on all release architectures except
> mips*el, but fails to build on mips*el. The three perf-* unit tests fail
> with exit status 1 and no obvious error messages:
> <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnome-shell&arch=mips64el&ver=44.3-1&stamp=1688819000&raw=0>
> <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnome-shell&arch=mipsel&ver=44.3-1&stamp=1688798824&raw=0>
>
> At the moment this is only in experimental, but we want to upload it to
> unstable soon, as part of the libmutter-12-0 transition
> <https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-mutter.html>.
>

I will try to debug it.

> Is gnome-shell practically useful on mips-based hardware, or does it
> have hardware requirements that the mips family do not meet in practice?
> If nobody really uses it on mips*el, it might be better to do
> architecture-specific removals rather than attempting to debug and fix it.
>
> Or, if the mips porting team can confirm that GNOME 43 works in practice
> as a desktop environment on mips*el hardware, then it would be useful

Yes. There are some MIPS desktop cases.

> to try GNOME 44 from experimental on the same hardware (after building
> gnome-shell locally with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck) to check whether
> this is a practical problem.
>
> Thanks,
>     smcv
>


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YunQiang Su