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

[Matteo Bernardini]

unfortunately they are painfully slow and we can't ask our maintainers to
support also those architectures.

Il giorno sab 4 mar 2023 alle ore 18:42 Fernando Lopez <
fernando.lopezjr at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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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