[Pkg-javascript-devel] Help with node-webfont test failures on 3 arches - possibly wasm related?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Julian Gilbey (2023-02-14 23:24:08)
> I've just submitted node-webfont to ci.debian.net and had failures on
> three architectures. 
[...]
> My guess is that s390x can't handle wasm, or something like that, but
> if that's not the issue, then I have no idea.  This code is generated
> by emscripten, so I presumed it should be able to run on all
> architectures, but clearly I'm wrong!

WASM _code_ is architecture agnostic, but emscripten as WASM _compiler_
contains architecture-specific code.

Beware that emscripten is lacking a maintainer for some time, so any
bugs there is unlikely to get fixed soon.

(I used to maintain emscripten, but have been laid off from the job
sponsoring my work on that)


> If these two architectures (s390x and ppc64el) can't handle it because
> of wasm, how can I specify that node-webfont should only be
> installable on certain architectures?  Is there some package I should
> build-time and run-time depend on to enforce this?  (node-webfont is
> currently an Architecture: all package.)

When your package is arch-all and you experience CI failures for tests
on some exotic archs, then ask release time to ignore those tests.

I have been told to do the same for Rust libraries that are arch-all but
depend on other arch-any libraries failing on s390x and ppc64el.


 - Jonas

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