Hi Jussi,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 03:16:08AM +0200, Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
> I uploaded a new version to experimental that does exactly what I
> described earlier. Basically everything should "just work" without any
> changes needed. Feel free to try it out and report any failures to me.
I'd appreciate if you could test your upload yourself rather than
deferring to me. In any case, this can be done with
sbuild -d unstable --build-dep-resolver=aptitude --host=ppc64el bolt
--add-depends="meson (>= 1.0.1-2)" --extra-repository="deb
http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main"
and I confirm that this succeeds now. So the experimental version will
not break the world. It might still break some things. It quite
certainly is inappropriate to bookworm due to the freeze timing.
I also spent a brief look at the env2mfile implementation and am
bewildered that it essentially discards the experience gained with
debcrossgen over the years. The mapping replacements for armhf, i386 and
mips64el are missing. Compiler flags are missing. So it looks more like
ppc64el happened to work by sheer luck.
A relatively simple method to address this would be adding a test case
that compares a generated cross file to a native file and for every
architecture and have it fail on differences.
So no, this is not appropriate. I fear we'll have to live with
debcrossgen for a longer while as env2mfile doesn't seem to catch up nor
fix the patches reported.
I admit being less than impressed by the progress on this matter.
Helmut
