Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] travis: Disable MIPS target

[Daniel Kiper]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 04.06.19 13:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 6/4/19 12:27 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> The MIPS target currently does not compile due to the following error
> >> message:
> >>
> >>   configure: error: could not force big-endian
> >>
> >> If anyone cares enough about MIPS to fix it up, be my guest and revert
> >> this commit afterwards. For now, we really need to move forward with
> >> a fully successful travis run to ensure that we catch regressions early
> >> on.
> > Same here, builds fine on Debian unstable. Just tested yesterday.
> >
> > In fact, all supported targets build fine.
>
>
> Could you please just fix up the travis tests to succeed? I think the
> MIPS problem is definitely toolchain related. Maybe you can somehow
> convince that travis ubuntu container to use official Debian cross
> compilers instead of the kernel.org ones that we use right now?

Could you install gcc-mipsel-linux-gnu package (it is Debian name but
I expect that Ubuntu will have something similar) and use this compiler
for mipsel? This is not the latest and greatest but at least we will
have some test builds for MIPS.

Daniel