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Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build

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From: Zacchaeus Scheffer <zaccysc <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:28:38 -0400

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Hi Guix!

I'm trying to install git-annex for aarch64, but it fails on the following
line:

\ 'configure-bin' phasebuilder for
`/gnu/store/b6j0zdnbpdhx81npbk25m4nls5y1h3f5-ghc-7.10.2.drv' failed with
exit code 1

I have attached the log for the failed ghc build.  The first error there
seems to be:

/tmp/guix-build-ghc-7.10.2.drv-0/ghc-7.10.2/ghc-bin/ghc-7.8.4/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd:
cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

Seeing as this works fine for x86, I'm guessing that a ghc-pwd is being
used that was compiled for x86, maybe an error in setting up cross
compiling?

Thanks,
Zacchae

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Zacchaeus Scheffer <zaccysc <at> gmail.com>, 50858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50858: Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:16:59 +0200

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Zacchaeus Scheffer schreef op ma 27-09-2021 om 18:28 [-0400]:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> I'm trying to install git-annex for aarch64,

Are you doing --target=aarch64-linux-gnu or --system=aarch64-linux?
The current package definition needs bootstrap binaries, which currently
are only defined for x86_64-linux and i686-linux, so --system=aarch64-linux
cannot work.

Doing --target=aarch64-linux-gnu should work though (untested).

>  but it fails on the following line:
> 
> \ 'configure-bin' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/b6j0zdnbpdhx81npbk25m4nls5y1h3f5-ghc-7.10.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
> 
> I have attached the log for the failed ghc build.  The first error there seems to be:
> 
> /tmp/guix-build-ghc-7.10.2.drv-0/ghc-7.10.2/ghc-bin/ghc-7.8.4/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> 
> Seeing as this works fine for x86, I'm guessing that a ghc-pwd is being used that was compiled for x86, maybe an error in setting up cross compiling?
> 
> Thanks,
> Zacchae

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Message #11 received at 50858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 50858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Zacchaeus Scheffer <zaccysc <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#50858: Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 15:32:05 +0300

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On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 10:16:59PM +0200, Maxime Devos wrote:
> Zacchaeus Scheffer schreef op ma 27-09-2021 om 18:28 [-0400]:
> > Hi Guix!
> > 
> > I'm trying to install git-annex for aarch64,
> 
> Are you doing --target=aarch64-linux-gnu or --system=aarch64-linux?
> The current package definition needs bootstrap binaries, which currently
> are only defined for x86_64-linux and i686-linux, so --system=aarch64-linux
> cannot work.
> 
> Doing --target=aarch64-linux-gnu should work though (untested).

(ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~/workspace/guix$ time torsocks ./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts git-annex --target=aarch64-linux-gnu
guix build: error: gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm:345:2: git-annex <at> 8.20210903: build system `haskell' does not support cross builds

Interestingly it might be easier to get the haskell-build-system to
support cross compiling than to find the upstream blessed binary for one
of the GHC releases and use that as a bootstrap for later GHC releases
on aarch64.

> 
> >  but it fails on the following line:
> > 
> > \ 'configure-bin' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/b6j0zdnbpdhx81npbk25m4nls5y1h3f5-ghc-7.10.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
> > 
> > I have attached the log for the failed ghc build.  The first error there seems to be:
> > 
> > /tmp/guix-build-ghc-7.10.2.drv-0/ghc-7.10.2/ghc-bin/ghc-7.8.4/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> > 
> > Seeing as this works fine for x86, I'm guessing that a ghc-pwd is being used that was compiled for x86, maybe an error in setting up cross compiling?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Zacchae



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Message #14 received at 50858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Zacchaeus Scheffer <zaccysc <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50858: Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:56:14 +0100

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 at 18:28, Zacchaeus Scheffer <zaccysc <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Seeing as this works fine for x86, I'm guessing that a ghc-pwd is
> being used that was compiled for x86, maybe an error in setting up
> cross compiling?

To my knowledge, the system aarch64 is not supported.  The GHC bootstrap
is currently implemented for x86_64 and i686, only.

Moreover, the Haskell build system does not support cross-builds, again
to my knowledge.

There is no mean to compile git-annex for aarch64.  Therefore, it is
expected that it fails.

Cheers,
simon

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