Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcr...@uq.edu.au> writes: > On 07/07/16 17:07, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcr...@uq.edu.au> writes: >> >>> On 07/07/16 15:52, Efraim Flashner wrote: >>>> http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1295673/log/raw Star currently fails to build >>>> on i686. Looking at the logs, it freaks out at an unsigned long int, >>>> __uint128_t, which as far as I know isn't supported on 32-bit systems, >>>> so it looks to me like we should disable support for i686 and armhf. >>> Agreed, it seems likely that this bionformatics tool never worked on >>> these systems. I will disable builds for these platforms. >> Thank you. This seems to be the right approach for now. Maybe we >> should also file a bug report upstream? At least we’ll know if they >> would be willing to support systems other than x86_64. > > Pushed as 'c11f79a'.
Thanks! > I decided not to file a bug report since I noted that the README > specifies that a 64 bit system is required. Seems reasonable to me. It’s a little sad that in bioinformatics x86_64 is used almost exclusively and very few tools work with any other architecture. ~~ Ricardo
