GNU bug report logs - #74609
[PATCH] Adding a fully-bootstrapped mono

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: unmush <unmush <at> proton.me>

Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:46:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 57625

Done: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: aaron.covrig.us <at> ieee.org, richard <at> freakingpenguin.com, 74609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, unmush <at> proton.me, janneke <at> gnu.org
Subject: [bug#74609] [PATCH 00/21] mono bootstrap
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:03:17 +0100
Hi Efraim,

Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:

> It turns out the first 2 patches didn't apply cleanly, so I fixed that
> up and I'm sending them back to the list.
>
> A couple of things that I noticed:
>
> * mono-5.something doesn't have its patches apply cleanly
> * I was only able to build to mono-3.12 before I got a build failure on
> x86_64

Oh, that looks like half of the chain.  Could you share the error with
unmush?  Does it fail reproducibly?

> * mono-1.2.6 doesn't have support for aarch64 or riscv64, and will
> probably need some patches (later) to add support.
> * libjit FTBFS on powerpc64le. I tried working around it but wasn't
> successful in when it came to using libjit.
> * The assembly included in libjit targets a too-early version of arm, so
> it is just broken completely on armhf and would probably do best with it
> being ripped out.

Regarding architecture support, that’s fine: we can add a suitably
restrictive ‘supported-systems’ field and improve platform coverage
if/when patches are available.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




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