[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1025032: kicad: Please add support for "riscv64" arch

[Carsten Schoenert]

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Hello Manuel,

Am 28.11.22 um 23:41 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
> Hi,
> 
> Please enable this architecture, with the patch attached or an equivalent.
> 
> I built it locally on hardware, it built fine just by enabling the architecture
> in debian/control, no other changes needed.
> 
> 
> In fact, there doesn't seem to be fundamental reasons for this package to be
> restricted to specific architectures, so perhaps it should just be set to "any".

the KiCad applications are using a small derived library from the Boost 
project which is included and shipped within the source of kicad.

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/master/thirdparty/libcontext

As I'm seeing now support for riscv64 was added in January 2022, so 
applying your suggested modification will work. But switching the 
Architecture field to any will not work.

I'm absolutely fine with adding riscv64 as additional supported 
architecture, I'm expecting at least one more release of the current 
stable 6.x branch before the hard freeze of bookworm will start. If 
things getting late I'll upload another version of 6.0.9 with the 
riscv64 architecture before.

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Regards
Carsten