[Debian-med-packaging] Any other architecture than amd64? [Was: Please help on build issue on arm64 (and others) (Was: failed arm64 build of vsearch 1.0.16+dfsg-1)]

[Torbjørn Rognes]

Hi Andreas

> On 19 Feb 2015, at 20:28, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Torbjørn,
> 
> Debian has an autobuilder infrastructure but all architectures other
> than amd64 failed in building.  Could you confirm that this is your only
> target architecture for vsearch?  I'll diable any other architecture in
> this case.

Yes, amd64 (or x86_64 or whatever) is our only target. Some core parts of the software even requires the SSE2 extensions instruction set, so other cpus are excluded.

You can disable all others.

- Torbjørn


> 
> BTW, I just uploaded 1.0.16. :-)
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Neil Williams <codehelp at debian.org> -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:15:44 +0000
> From: Neil Williams <codehelp at debian.org>
> To: debian-arm at lists.debian.org, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu>
> Subject: Re: Please help on build issue on arm64 (and others) (Was: failed arm64 build of vsearch 1.0.16+dfsg-1)
> 
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:59:20 +0100
> Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the problematic line is:
>> 
>> ...
>> g++ -O3 -DHAVE_BZLIB  -Icityhash -Wall -Wsign-compare -g -c -o
>> align.o align.cc In file included from align.cc:22:0:
>> vsearch.h:30:23: fatal error: x86intrin.h: No such file or directory
>> #include <x86intrin.h>
>>                       ^
>> compilation terminated.
> 
> That may only be the start of the problems. The source code has no
> concept of anything other than x86, it builds on no architectures other
> than amd64. Is there any upstream interest in architectures other than
> amd64? Is there a use case for the package on architectures other than
> amd64?
> 
>> I have no idea, whether there is some workaround for non-x86
>> architectures.
> 
> A workaround might not be enough - this package could need upstream
> porting and maintenance.
> 
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