On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:33:18 GMT, Fei Yang <fy...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> In JDK-8339548, we switched to use Debian snapshot > (https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240228T034848Z/) for bootstrap. > The reason is that we don't have a stable Debian release for RISC-V yet and > Debian "sid" (https://httpredir.debian.org/debian) that we use for > debootstrapping RISC-V breaks at that time. This works as expected for about > one month. But bad news is that GHA linux-cross-build job for RISC-V starts > to fail again this week. Sigh! I guess there might be some change on the > distro running on GHA test machines as same debootstrap command still works > on my x64 machine running Ubuntu 22.04. > > Good news is that that Debian "sid" can now bootstrap for RISC-V. So this > simply switches back to Debian "sid". As the version > of dpkg command on GHA machines is old (1.21.1), we need to add one extra > option `--no-merged-usr` for bootstrap command to work (More discussion here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/2054925). This > option seems not necessary for newer dpkg versions like 1.22.6. > > Testing: > - [x] GHA test .github/workflows/build-cross-compile.yml line 134: > 132: run: > > 133: sudo debootstrap > 134: --no-merged-usr I have a question about this. https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge says: "This page tracks Debian support for the merged /usr directories scheme, i.e. the /{bin,sbin,lib}/ directories becoming symbolic links to /usr/{bin,sbin,lib}/." So turning this off gets us separate `/{bin,sbin,lib}/`, right? We clean up the unnecessary files from a sysroot in the next step, would that step miss `/{bin,sbin}` and subdirs in `/{lib}` then? ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21575#discussion_r1806568672
