Andreas Enge <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> Anything bioinformatics is not really used on non Intel architectures. >> It may change later but, yes, defaulting to x86_64 is the quick option >> for failing packages. I prefer we change them that way. > > How about ngs-sdk, which fails on armhf with the slightly surprising error > message: > Configuring NGS-SDK package > checking system type... Linux > checking machine architecture... armv7l > configure: error: unsupported architecture 'Linux' > (and similarly on mips). > > Is it okay to take out mips and arm from the supported architectures?
NGS-SDK has a custom build system with custom checks. I don’t know on what architectures it is supposed to run. Building it on x86_64 was quite hard because I had to go around the many invalid assumptions. It’s a bioinfo library, so I don’t think MIPS (or ARM) is officially supported, but personally I would like to resist the urge to declare all bioinfo tools unsupported on non-Intel. (Unfortunately, I don’t have time to check if NGS-SDK could be build on other platforms at the moment.) ~~ Ricardo
