Porting #852
[texlive-bin] won't build on ARM hardware (xindy/clisp memory fault)
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Description
xindy is a Tex package which depends on clisp and that we provide in our texlive-bin package. I was able to build texlive-bin unmodified on QEMU-ARM, but in real hardware clisp crashes with a memory fault while trying to compile texlive-bin/src/source/utils/xindy/xindy-2.5.1/src/base.lsp.
I attached a file with the relevant part of the build process.
For reference, Debian had xindy for arm soft-float during wheezy, and now the sid version claims to be available for armv7 hard-float, but there's no xindy package in Debian stable according to this search [[https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xindy&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all]] (and no other package seems to include it).
Other distros don't package xindy at all for ARM (Gentoo, Fedora, Arch ARM). The only mention of this bug I could find comes from a recent attempt to package xindy in Fedora: [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1275438#c4]]
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Updated by Anonymous over 8 years ago
- Subject changed from texlive-bin won't build on ARM hardware (xindy/clisp memory fault) to [texlive-bin] won't build on ARM hardware (xindy/clisp memory fault)
Updated by isacdaavid almost 8 years ago
Interestingly, the QEMU build also failed for the same reason on a x86_64 host. It's only QEMU on i686 that can overcome it.
Updated by isacdaavid over 7 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from open to fixed
This was fixed a while back in abslibre with conditional compilation to disable xindy on armv7h.