GNU bug report logs - #43274
"genimage fails to build on arm architecture"

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Package: guix; Reported by: Andreas Enge <andreas@HIDDEN>; dated Tue, 8 Sep 2020 11:21:01 UTC; Maintainer for guix is bug-guix@HIDDEN.
Changed bug title to '"genimage fails to build on arm architecture"' from 'fdisk fails to build on armhf' Request was from Andreas Enge <andreas@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:47:53PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> The next step would be to check newer releases (12 and 13) of genimage.
> Has it actually ever been built on the arm architecture?

I tried 12 and 13, but already on x86_64 the test
FAIL: test/basic-images.test 7 - mke2fs
fails.

If someone with more experience with the package could have a look, that
would be nice.

Andreas
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On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 03:12:03PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> So there does not even seem to be a test that relies on fdisk.

Looking at the tests, they do call "fdisk" and "sfdisk", but these come
from the util-linux package. The fdisk package only provides "gnufdisk",
which does not seem to be used at all.

> I would suggest to drop fdisk from this package (and getting closer to
> dropping guile@HIDDEN as well).

The package without fdisk fails on aarch64 (where it also failed previously)
and on armhf (where previously its dependency fdisk failed). So I will push
a commit that drops fdisk.

The next step would be to check newer releases (12 and 13) of genimage.
Has it actually ever been built on the arm architecture?

Also, is there any opposition to then drop the fdisk package from the
distribution?

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Here is what happens when I drop fdisk from native-inputs of genimage:

starting phase `check'
make --no-print-directory check-TESTS
PASS: test/basic-images.test 1 - cpio
SKIP: test/basic-images.test 2 # SKIP cramfs (missing mkcramfs)
...
PASS: test/basic-images.test 20 - fit
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for genimage 11
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 20
# PASS:  19
# SKIP:  1
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

So there does not even seem to be a test that relies on fdisk.

I would suggest to drop fdisk from this package (and getting closer to
dropping guile@HIDDEN as well).

Andreas
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The same two tests also fail on an armhf machine.

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Hello,

I am trying to build an armhf disk image on an aarch64 machine.

The build fails in this order:
genimage requires fdisk
fdisk requires guile-1.8.8 (!)
guile-1.8.8 fails two of its 16 tests:
ERROR: Value out of range -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807: -9223372036854775808
FAIL: test-num2integral
fail: scm_is_signed_integer ((- (expt 2 63)), -9223372036854775808, 9223372036854775807) == 1
FAIL: test-conversion

This might be due to trying to "pseudo-cross-compile" from an aarch64 machine.
Independently, the last fdisk release dates from 2011, and relying on
guile-1.8.8 is not sustainable.

Can we phase out fdisk in Guix? Replace it by parted? Something else?
Actually genimage is the only package depending on fdisk, so if anything,
we could maybe drop this dependency, marked as
    (native-inputs
       ...
       ("fdisk" ,fdisk) ; for the tests

What do you think?

Andreas
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