Quoting Lev Lamberov (2022-09-06 14:00:55) > Hi Jonas, > > Сб 03 сен 2022 @ 21:19 Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk>: > > >> The autopkgtest caught that the package is not functional on !amd64: > >> > >> (buster_arm64-dchroot)bunk@amdahl:/tmp$ eye.pvm > >> /usr/bin/eye.pvm: 3: exec: /usr/lib/swi-prolog/bin/x86_64-linux/swipl: not > >> found > >> (buster_arm64-dchroot)bunk@amdahl:/tmp$ > >> > >> Changing Architecture: from "all" to "any" might be a reasonable option. > > > > In my understanding, this is a bug in SWI Prolog, in that when > > generating a so-called "intermediate code file" it embeds an > > arch-specific path to the interpreter instead of the arch-independent > > symlink in PATH: /usr/bin/swipl > > > > @Lev: What do you think? Is it possible to patch SWI Prolog to embed an > > architecture-agnostic path for executing intermediary files? > > SWI-Prolog supports three different pre-compiled formats: qlf, boot.prc, > and user created states. The first two do not include paths to the > interpreter. Looks like eye relies on the third one. I've asked upstream > about the possibility to embed an arch-independent path to such user > created states and got the answer that sometimes it is not a good idea, > because these states may differ due to conditional compilation. I've > looked into eye and looks like it does not (at least curretly, or I was > not able to spot it) use conditional compilation on various > architectures. So, I think it is probably save to embed arch-independent > path to the interpreter. SWI-Prolog upstream pushed a commit to support > this feature, but one should enable it explicitely with a command-line > option when running swipl to generate pre-compiled file of this kind > (like, swipl -o myexe --emulator=/usr/bin/swipl -c mycode.pl). I will > add this patch to the swi-prolog in Debian in the near future (probably, > I will have some time for it on the coming weekend, also I plan to > finish packaging a new upstream stable release, 8.4.3, where Debian is > at 8.4.2 at this point). I'll let you know when you can experiment with > eye concerning this change.
Cool! Thanks a lot! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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