Bug 874436

Summary:	nqp tests fail on ARM
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Robinson <pbrobinson>
Component:	nqp	Assignee:	Gerd Pokorra <gp>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	gp
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Description Peter Robinson 2012-11-08 08:07:37 UTC

With the fix pushed to build with PIC the nqp now builds on ARM but certain tests still fail.

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1240294

There's an upstream thread documenting the issues we're seeing here

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.compiler/2012/06/msg8251.html

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 14:58:23 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2013-04-13 08:15:45 UTC

Any update?

Comment 3 Gerd Pokorra 2013-04-17 07:45:31 UTC

I think it may be the Byte Order (Big Endian <-> Little Endian). The ARM-Architecture has the opposite byte order than i386, x86.

Is the corresponding Parrot-RPM already in the ARM-F19-Repository?

Comment 4 Peter Robinson 2013-04-17 07:58:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think it may be the Byte Order (Big Endian <-> Little Endian). The
> ARM-Architecture has the opposite byte order than i386, x86.

ARM on Fedora, like x86, is little endian so that's not the problem. ARM does have the ability to run in both little and big endian but all current Linux distributions use little endian. That's what the l in armv7hl stands for :)

Comment 5 Gerd Pokorra 2013-04-17 12:05:34 UTC

Here is a hasty reaction:

So may be in the Parrot sources the line

$cpuarch =~ s/armv[34]l?/arm/i;

in the file

config/auto/arch.pm

have to be changed.

Comment 6 Gerd Pokorra 2013-04-17 14:26:35 UTC

Hey Peter,

there is a build of nqp-0.0.2013.01-1.fc19 from you at ARM.

Comment 7 Gerd Pokorra 2013-04-17 15:31:29 UTC

Even the rakudo-star-0.0.2012_5.0.0-1.fc19 build on top of NQP is there. So there should be no problem with NQP from the package nqp-0.0.2013.01-1.fc19.