Re: [PATCHES] Add vsearch.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> my impression is that quite a few of the packages from scientific computing
> and bioinformatics fail to build on non-x86 architectures, and maybe even on
> i686. Presumably, there is not much interest in running such specialised code
> on less performing hardware.
>
> It would be good if someone with more interest in them could have a look
> whether this is indeed the case and then propose a supported-platforms
> patch. Otherwise, we could try to fix the problems. Looking at the debian
> packages could help determine whether we might obtain arm and mips packages.

Some applications do in fact use x86_64 instructions unconditionally,
which results in a couple of packages to fail compilation on i686, mips
and arm.  These are pretty easy to identify by looking at the build
logs.  For some of these scientific applications, upstream is not
interested in fixing the build failures as they only support x86_64.

On the other hand we have many more packages that cannot currently be
built because they depend on libraries or applications that fail on
i686, mips or arm.  I’m hoping to look at the icedtea and openblas
failures on mips and arm on Sunday.

~~ Ricardo