[debian-mysql] Bug#1006527: mariadb-10.6: FTBFS on ppc64/ppc64el: htmxlintrin.h errors

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 3/3/22 19:06, Tom Grzybowski wrote:
>> If this still violates the policy, I'd like to know now so I can
>> implement solutions that drop support for ppc64 POWER5+
>> and support hardware like ppc64le, POWER8+ that we actually do have
>> hardware for and can support.
> 
> If that happens, all of us with Power5 and Power4 CPS would be dropped from Debian!

Don't worry, this won't be necessary. mariadb does even build on the venerable Motorola
68000 CPU which is much older than POWER5 [1], so there is absolutely no reason to assume
it wouldn't run on any variant on PowerPC.

I think all that mariadb needs is a little input from porters for the various architectures
to get the code more portable and more robust. I have to admit, working on the code base
is a little frustrating due to the many parallel versions of MariaDB but I think it's
feasible.

Adrian

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb-10.6&suite=sid

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