Hi, On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 6:22 AM Niko Tyni <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 03:47:05PM +0800, Bo YU wrote: > > Package: perl > > Version: 5.36.0-10 > > Followup-For: Bug #1024636 > > Tags: patch > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I have followed the instructions from debian/cross/README to generate > > these files which support cross build from native build on loong64 host. > > but it is unclear to me how to verify if this binary works like you > > comment on -1[#10]. Could you give me a little hint? > > > > But I think it should be no problem. > > > > [#10]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024636#10 > > Hi, thanks for your efforts. I only saw your message now as you mailed > [email protected] which is not forwarded to the maintainer. > Please use just [email protected] in the future. okay.:) > > If the files are from a native build that passed the Perl test suite > during the build, that's totally acceptable. My concern was about the > previous hand crafted cross config files that looked like nobody had > ever tested them at all. For such hand crafting, I suppose a minimal > test would be to install the cross built binary perl packages on an > actual loong64 host and run 'perl -V' or something like that. > > However, I'm afraid we have missed the train here: your patch is for > Perl 5.36 but we're now moving to 5.38 (with perl_5.38.2-2 building in > Debian unstable right now.) It makes little sense to include the 5.36 > config files now, so unfortunately you'll have to redo the process with > the 5.38 package. No worried. I will test these cross configs based on 5.38 on loong64 machines again. Yeah, when I sent the patch I realized maybe we will transit to 5.38 because it was in experimental for a long time.
> > Apologies for the awkward process. It's all workarounds for perl upstream > not supporting cross configuration properly due to lots of historical > baggage. No problem.Many thanks for your work also. BR, Bo > -- > Niko Tyni [email protected]
