[Slackbuilds-users] proposal to enable building scripts on ARM

[Fernando Lopez]

willy there are arm VM's.

On Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 9:25 AM Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>
wrote:

> > ARM isn't going away, and slackbuilds.org supporting at least a subset
> > of scripts to be build on ARM would be really nice to have. I'm not
> > heavily invested in it, I just have some RPis with Slackware on it that
> > I occasionally use. Just sharing my thoughts, as it's a semi-frequently
> > discussed topic.
> >
> > The main problem with allowing support for ARM is that the layout of
> > the info files would change, which could break tooling. I just had an
> > idea which wouldn't break any existing tools, but could enable
> > architecture specific information to be read by other tools (or
> > humans):
> >
> > For each additional supported architecture other than x86 and x86_64 add
> > a file named ${PRGNAM}.${ARCH}info which add/override values of the
> > classic info file. The only additional change would be in the code to
> > detect architectures in the SlackBuilds, but that should be of no
> > relevance for tools.
>
> The problem is that we (admins) might not have a machine to test the ARM
> architecture, so we can't validate the script.
> Plus it adds more loads to the admins to validate over 8k scripts during
> development cycle for next release of SlackBuild repository.
>
> We had issues with failing 32 bit builds for 15.0 since majority of
> users here are using 64 bit machines only and didn't test on 32 bit
> machines anymore so some goes undetected.
>
>
> --
> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
>
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