Re: bio package star

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/07/16 15:52, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>> http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1295673/log/raw Star currently fails to build
>> on i686. Looking at the logs, it freaks out at an unsigned long int,
>> __uint128_t, which as far as I know isn't supported on 32-bit systems,
>> so it looks to me like we should disable support for i686 and armhf.
>
> Agreed, it seems likely that this bionformatics tool never worked on 
> these systems. I will disable builds for these platforms.

Thank you.  This seems to be the right approach for now.  Maybe we
should also file a bug report upstream?  At least we’ll know if they
would be willing to support systems other than x86_64.

~~ Ricardo