[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#1054180: openssl: FTBFS on loong64

[WANG Xuerui]

On 10/21/23 01:58, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2023-10-20 13:49:01 [+0800], WANG Xuerui wrote:
>> This is likely upstream issue
>> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/21340, manifesting on Debian due
>> to the packaged binutils not having Loongson SIMD support yet, and fixed by
>> upstream commit 160f48941d143cf2682df4e938ba953c96ac3c7a.
>>
>> I'd suggest including the upstream patch so we don't have to touch anywhere
>> else.
> So submitting patches for projects before having the upstream in the
> building tools. Nobody can build this then. What about uploading a
> custom binutils with the needed support to ports until it is merged
> upstream?

Hmm, not quite; with the commit I linked to applied, the build will get 
fixed, only that the asm code won't get built. It's a matter of the 
original change adding SIMD optimization not taking care of toolchain 
probing.

Also the binutils instruction set support is actually complete and 
released in 2.41, so a custom  build isn't necessary either: we'd only 
have to wait until Debian bumps the binutils version to 2.41 across the 
board. It's a good thing to not move so quickly, on the other hand; 
we've already hit some interesting bugs in Gentoo land due to the linker 
relaxation thing...