Re: debian-sid build for RISCV64 broken

["MOESSBAUER, Felix" <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>]

On Fri, 2023-11-10 at 09:22 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 10.11.23 09:13, 'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users wrote:
> > Dear devs,
> > 
> > we currently cannot build the riscv64 targets, as the sbuild chroot
> > packages have conflicting internal dependencies. This happens quite
> > frequently due to updates to the upstream sid repositories.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if we should pin riscv64 to snapshots.debian.org to
> > avoid
> > these breaks. However, there we are rate-limited, making our builds
> > rather slow / unstable.
> > 
> > I'm open for other approaches, but would highly appreciate if we
> > could
> > have a stable riscv64 build.
> > 
> 
> RISC-V crossbuilding is broken, and is expected to remain broken for
> some more month according to what I heard from Debian folks. Native
> building against sid worked the last time I tried, but it's not
> practical for anything that needs an own kernel etc.

Yes, for all practical use-cases we must have cross support.
Do we have any references that state this? Can we somehow get involved
to speedup fixing this?

> 
> Using snapshot means going back to early this year, using sid-ports
> again - while it is also not working reliably due to server issues
> and
> throttling of that service. That's what we are stuck with on
> isar-cip-core side.

This is more or less a showstopper for any work on porting things to
riscv64 in debian. We cannot even do prototypical porting of
applications anymore, as things simply don't build. What a bummer.

In the past it was at least somehow stable and could be used for
prototyping.

Felix

> 
> Jan
>