On 06/25/2017 04:42 PM, Anthony Fok wrote: >>> Or, better yet, is there a way to find out what went wrong on >>> zemlinsky? Is it an older machine with an older CPU that does not >>> support some newer CPU instructions? (Sorry, I know nothing about >>> s390x and I am likely completely wrong.) >> >> That is actually the problem. On s390x golang requires a higher ISA than >> the one Debian targets. I have started to patch golang-1.7 to avoid these >> new instructions a few months ago, but upstream is not interested by >> supporting older CPUs and keep adding more usage of new instructions. > > Thank you for your detailed explanation, and thank you for your > efforts in trying to solve it. > > But yeah, I guess golang users on s390x would just have to accept the > fact that they need a newer CPU. Thankfully, the majority of Debian's > s390x machines (buildd and porterbox), 3 out of 4, support the newer > instructions. :-)
What's the current ISA requirement for golang? zEC12? z13? I suppose popcon (as misleading as it is) likely doesn't have h/w stats? (And I know that the current count of actual submissions is... 12.) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern