| sadoon_albader[m | qemu currently building for ppc64, some qemu targets would not build due to unavailable cross compilers so I just disabled those | 12:46 |
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| sadoon_albader[m | I think we have only php7.4 left :D | 12:46 |
| lkcl | are you able to start the ppc64 build in its own VM? | 13:08 |
| lkcl | do you have debian-installer netinst rebuilt? | 13:08 |
| lkcl | that's where it'd get _really_ interesting | 13:08 |
| lkcl | sadoon_albader[m, here's the debian-ppc mailing list archives https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ | 13:10 |
| lkcl | subscribe/unsubscribe at the top. | 13:10 |
| sadoon_albader[m | <lkcl> "are you able to start the..." <- I already build all these packages in a that kind of VM :) | 13:16 |
| sadoon_albader[m | <lkcl> "do you have debian-installer..." <- That one would be the last thing to do, very low priority | 13:17 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Because as of now it's using the same installer, just pointing to a different repo | 13:17 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Everything else is the same | 13:17 |
| sadoon_albader[m | <lkcl> "sadoon_albader, here's the..." <- I'll subscribe tonight | 13:17 |
| sadoon_albader[m | I other words, all you need to do to get bullseye is to use a ppc/ppc64 netinst from February 2021 and use the expert installer to point to the snapshot repo | 13:18 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Once you're installed and rebooted, you need to add the security repo and enable it. | 13:18 |
| sadoon_albader[m | And you're all set | 13:18 |
| lkcl | ok cool. ah so you can actually boot (even if it's a VM). the reason i ask is because if you can do that, then cross-compiling is not needed | 13:20 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Yup, exactly! | 13:20 |
| lkcl | debian's rules for package building are that it has to be native hardware for very good reasons | 13:20 |
| sadoon_albader[m | I am building the ppc packages on ppc64 though but that shouldn't be an issue | 13:21 |
| lkcl | yeah they've run into the serious problem of 32-bit native OSes being memory-restricted and incapable of building packages that require greater than 4GB of resident RAM for the linker phase | 13:22 |
| lkcl | and i belieeeve have solved that by permitting those packages to be built on the equivalent 64-bit hardware | 13:22 |
| lkcl | firefox last time i heard required 7 GB of RAM for the linker phase. | 13:23 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Yup, webkit2gtk also will fail to build without more than 4gb of RAM unless you change the default linker | 13:25 |
| lkcl | i made both gnu-ld and gnu-gold fall over very badly :) | 13:55 |
| lkcl | https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22831 | 13:56 |
| lkcl | linker-torturer creates randomised programs that are so large that neither ld nor gold can cope :) | 13:56 |
| lkcl | moo-ha-ha | 13:56 |
| markos | sadoon_albader[m, if mailing lists are not your thing, you might want to join OFTC on irc | 14:03 |
| markos | and we could get you in touch with cbmuser who would really appreciate the help with powerpc/ppc64 | 14:03 |
| sadoon_albader[m | <lkcl> "linker-torturer creates randomis..." <- It's a virus! | 14:03 |
| lkcl | markos, that's debianppc? https://wiki.debian.org/IRC | 14:04 |
| sadoon_albader[m | markos: I've never done mailing lists, but email is my preferred way of communication | 14:04 |
| sadoon_albader[m | It'll probably work well | 14:04 |
| markos | lkcl, there is #debian-ports and #debianppc | 14:05 |
| lkcl | ahh cool | 14:05 |
| sadoon_albader[m | It's the start of the weekend here so I'll be with friends BBQing, I'll look into it all later | 14:07 |
| sadoon_albader[m | (Our weekends start on Thursday, govt is thinking of making Friday which would be awful) | 14:07 |
| lkcl | nice :) | 14:07 |
| lkcl | deep joy | 14:07 |
| sadoon_albader[m | :) | 14:08 |
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