[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#920927: Bug#920927: zfs-dkms: module FTBFS for i386 kernel

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2019-01-30 20:12, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> [Andreas Beckmann]
>> zfs-dkms does not build a kernel module for e.g. the 4.19.0-2-686 i386
>> kernel. This happened in a i386 chroot on a amd64 host, but this should
>> not really be a problem, since this setup works fine for other
>> packages.
> 
> Are you sure this isn't intentional?  It is strongly recommended not to
> use ZFS on 32 bit architectures, if I recall correctly.

"intentional" would have been to fail with a clear error message during
the configure step (optionally recommending an override option), not
after successfully compiling tons of source files to fail in some crypto
code with a dubious error message:
  #error Assembler code is only available for x86 and AMD64 systems
I didn't even try it on a non-x86 platform :-)

This looks rather like completely "untested".


Andreas