Path: csiph.com!news.dns-netz.com!news.freedyn.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thomas Goirand Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Why is isal limited to just three archs? Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 10:50:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Nilesh Patra , debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sat Oct 16 08:42:09 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.001 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MEDS2=2, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19427 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/98a7f4a9-0ddc-5ab8-c66d-a2459cd05683@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 25 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: onovy@debian.org X-Original-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 10:41:51 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <98a7f4a9-0ddc-5ab8-c66d-a2459cd05683@debian.org> X-Original-References: <00c0ac0e-659e-e072-42e7-46ebc3587413@nileshpatra.info> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:13631 On 10/16/21 9:09 AM, Nilesh Patra wrote: > Hi Ond=C5=99ej, >=20 > I see that isal package is limited to amd64, arm64 and kfreebsd-amd64. > Is there a particular reason for this? -- Is it possible to extend > support to other archs? >=20 > Actually, a -med team package fastp has started to depend on > libisal-dev, and this > now is limited to the few archs isal supports. So it would be really > nice if isal > can build on more archs. >=20 > Please do let me know. >=20 > Nilesh Hi, Did you look into the source package? isal is written in assembly language... Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)