On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 12:39:39PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3/18/26 6:54 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > #1072678 was only about 32-bit arm, there was no problem building
> > the package on i386.
>
> Do we have an autopkgtest for the GUI working, or is this just a repeat of
> the non-GUI test with some unused code linked in?
Technically this qualify as "an autopkgtest for the GUI working":
Test-Command: nextpnr-ice40 --help
Depends: nextpnr-ice40-qt
> > But even changing these back to "Architecture: any" is possible,
> > by updating the build dependencies to Qt6 which does not have
> > this problem.
>
> Mh, that's still a waste of autobuilder time (because to be useful, the
> platform needs an actual accelerated GL implementation -- this thing
> generates vertex buffers with close to a million entries).
Even the 32-bit only original Raspberry Pi has a gpu,
and there are many cpu+gpu combinations in arm hardware.
> I do like the idea of simplifying the package, though.
We have gazillons of scientific packages with huge build times built on
architectures where they likely have no users.
The build time of one package (trilinos) was recently reduced from
11 days to 2 days on riscv64, nextpnr does not have a particularly
large build time.
10 minutes less build time on the fast armhf/i386 buildds is not
something worth spending time on.
> Simon
cu
Adrian
BTW: The package builds with Qt6, and if it works (untested) it would
also in general be desirable to switch away from the legacy Qt5.
