GNU bug report logs - #60719
openbios-qemu-ppc fails to build on aarch64

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From: Andrew Patterson <andrewpatt7 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: openbios-qemu-ppc fails to build on aarch64
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:35:49 -0500

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openbios-qemu-ppc currently fails to compile on aarch64, with 
build errors about missing __u32 and __u16 types somehow existing 
in a linux header file that includes the header file that defines 
those types.  (Log attached.)

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Andrew Patterson

Message #8 received at 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: guix-devel <at> gnu.org
Cc: 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [aarch64] grub-efi cannot be built because of qemu changes
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:17:34 +0100

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> commit 71b8707100e2fbc00f123566717ba3958c6afabb seems to have broken
> reconfiguration of my aarch64 machine.

See also https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60719

-- 
Ricardo

Message #11 received at 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrew Patterson <andrewpatt7 <at> gmail.com>
To: 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rekado <at> elephly.net
Subject: Re: bug#60719: Acknowledgement (openbios-qemu-ppc fails to build on
 aarch64)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:12:23 -0500

From altogether too much searching around with gcc -M, it looks 
like the problem is that openbios has in its include directory an 
asm/types.h.  Because things added to the header search path by -I 
shadow system headers and are global, this replaces the 
<asm/types.h> that <asm/sigcontext.h> relies on, causing the 
error.  On aarch64, <bits/sigcontext.h> (which I think <signal.h> 
includes?) imports <asm/sigcontext.h>, so the whole thing fails to 
build.  On x86_64, <bits/sigcontext.h> does not import 
<asm/sigcontext.h>, so this whole problem never occurs.

I don't know how to fix this on guix's end, but I guess I now need 
to complain to upstream and hope they can work out a fix.

(I have a newfound hatred of #include.)
-- 
Andrew Patterson

Message #14 received at 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrew Patterson <andrewpatt7 <at> gmail.com>
To: 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rekado <at> elephly.net
Subject: Re: bug#60719: Acknowledgement (openbios-qemu-ppc fails to build on
 aarch64)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:16:03 -0500

> I don't know how to fix this on guix's end, but I guess I now 
> need to
> complain to upstream and hope they can work out a fix.

I've submitted an issue to upstream: 
https://github.com/openbios/openbios/issues/11

-- 
Andrew Patterson

Message #17 received at 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Akira Kyle <akira <at> akirakyle.com>
To: 60719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: openbios <at> openbios.org, qemu-ppc <at> nongnu.org, Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Subject: openbios-qemu-ppc fails to build on aarch64
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:52:23 -0700

Andrew Patterson wrote on 17 Jan 06:16 +0100:

> I've submitted an issue to upstream: 
> https://github.com/openbios/openbios/issues/11

It looks like from the other open issues, that the openbios team doesn't actually use the github issue tracker but their own mailing list, which I'm CC'ing, along with the qemu-ppc mailing list.

For anyone following this issue who wants to work around it and be able to `guix system reconfigure` on aarch64, I've copied the qemu package definition from before Marius unbundled a bunch of the qemu firmware, including openbios, to here:
https://github.com/akirakyle/guix-channel/blob/master/akira/qemu.scm


The relevant parts of my system config are then

(use-modules (akira qemu))

(define %qemu-package-replacements
  `((,qemu-minimal . ,my-qemu-minimal)))

(define with-my-qemu
  (package-input-rewriting %qemu-package-replacements))

(define my-grub-efi
  (with-my-qemu grub-efi))

(define my-grub-efi-bootloader
  (bootloader 
   (inherit grub-efi-bootloader)
   (package my-grub-efi)))


(operating-system
...
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
               (bootloader my-grub-efi-bootloader)
               (targets '("/boot"))
               (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
...)

Message #22 received at 60719-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrew Patterson <andrewpatt7 <at> gmail.com>
To: 60719-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rekado <at> elephly.net
Subject: Re: bug#60719: Acknowledgement (openbios-qemu-ppc fails to build on
 aarch64)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:08:45 -0500

Fixed as of 042b92edb20648c030dcbaf59acd176731550b70

-- 
Andrew Patterson

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