Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Edmund Grimley Evans [2015-09-11 16:25 +0100]: > > So it would probably just be best to drop armel from nodejs.. > > I would guess that depends on how much work is involved and whether > there is someone willing to do the work. Or does Policy forbid > packages that fail gracefully on some hard

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:25:32PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > Doesn't "softfloat" refer to the ABI rather than the hardware? So you > can pass floats in integer registers, as if you didn't have any FPU, > but move them into FPU registers to do arithmetic. I believe you can optionally hav

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
> So it would probably just be best to drop armel from nodejs.. I would guess that depends on how much work is involved and whether there is someone willing to do the work. Or does Policy forbid packages that fail gracefully on some hardware? I definitely think you shouldn't let armel hold things

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:58:04PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." > > That's something that's changed since libv8-3.14

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." That's something that's changed since libv8-3.14. So, unless you're planning to do some significant extra work, or I have funda

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." Well https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts ArmEabiPort - newer p

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > 2015-09-11 10:48 GMT+02:00 Edmund Grimley Evans > : >> >> This seems to be the problem on armel: >> >> configure:o['variables']['arm_fpu'] = 'vfpv2' >> >> It probably should be "vfp" instead of "vfpv2". A GCC man page says: >> >>

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 Thread Jérémy Lal
2015-09-11 10:48 GMT+02:00 Edmund Grimley Evans < edmund.grimley.ev...@gmail.com>: > This seems to be the problem on armel: > > configure:o['variables']['arm_fpu'] = 'vfpv2' > > It probably should be "vfp" instead of "vfpv2". A GCC man page says: > >-mfpu=name >-mfpe=number >

nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-10 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
This is good news: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=nodejs&suite=experimental It's currently not building on armel, but it looks like a simple configuration issue. If anyone has an armel chroot to hand perhaps they'd like to test a patch and reply to bug #772023. Nodejs is one of t