Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.

[David Thompson]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> Unfortunately, it fails to build on mips:
>    http://hydra.gnu.org/build/136438
> Could you have a look? To me it looks as if there is bad assembly code
> in the source:
> /tmp/nix-build-freeimage-3.16.0.drv-0/cc1WaZEm.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/nix-build-freeimage-3.16.0.drv-0/cc1WaZEm.s:360: Error: opcode not 
> supported on this processor: mips3 (mips3) `madd $24,$10'
> ...

Here's a patch that drops MIPS support.  Okay to push?

>From 67515d4f69b7deda45be7fb6e7ebf260d5e0439b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:26:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: freeimage: Remove MIPS from supported-systems.

* gnu/packages/image.scm (freeimage): Drop support for "mips64el-linux".
---
 gnu/packages/image.scm | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm
index f4f4c78..7a22bf4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm
@@ -377,6 +377,8 @@ supplies a generic doubly-linked list and some string 
functions.")
       #:tests? #f)) ; no check target
    (native-inputs
     `(("unzip" ,unzip)))
+   ;; Fails to build on MIPS due to assembly code in the source.
+   (supported-systems (delete "mips64el-linux" %supported-systems))
    (synopsis "Library for handling popular graphics image formats")
    (description
     "FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular
-- 
2.1.1

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