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Re: Wine MinGW system libraries

From Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: Wine MinGW system libraries
Date 2021-09-13 20:20 +0200
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:39:25 +0200, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> I believe I can speak with my "main cross building porter" hat on.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 01:57:44PM +0000, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> > They are a full color gradiant between:
> > - freestanding arches pure cross compile without any depends except
> > arch:all
> > - partial cross built arch
> > - partial arch
> > - full arch
> > 
> > I believe the first step to get partial cross built arch is to begin
> > by freestanding arch.  
> 
> Certainly not. As much as I would love to see this happen, it is very
> unrealistic. wine can quite simply use -$arch-cross:all packages like
> very other bare metal target and switch to our pipe dream once it is
> ready (if ever).

And even that assumes that we can get agreement on what $arch should be for
Windows targets :-(.

> cross building is very far off becoming the thing you want it to be. It
> presently has a bus factor of around 1.5. Around 59% of source packages
> are cross-satisfiable. Around 78% of cross-satisfiable packages are
> cross buildable. In other words: less than 50% of packages are cross
> buildable. Beyond that, the cross porters cannot keep up with the
> current rate of regressions. Fractions are falling.

The bus factor is indeed a problem. For Wine (and even a wider MinGW-w64
ecosystem) we don’t need all that many source packages to be
cross-satisfiable for the whole endeavour to be useful...

The regressions are significant though: if packages can’t stay
cross-satisfiable for Debian cross-targets, there’s little hope they can stay
cross-satisfiable for Windows! This means that separate source packages are
probably the only viable option.

> To make cross building a viable thing we'd need at least three more
> porters determined to make it happen. Talk doesn't make it happen.
> Patches do. Let me know if you want to help. I'll get you started.

Is the process documented anywhere? Or does one simply pick a failure from
http://crossqa.debian.net and figure out what’s going wrong (and hope that
pulling the threads doesn’t reveal a monster...)?

Regards,

Stephen

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Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-05 03:40 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 09:20 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-05 18:30 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 10:00 +0200
      Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 15:40 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 16:10 +0200
          Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 16:20 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 16:40 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 17:30 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2021-09-13 17:50 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 20:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2021-09-13 22:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 22:30 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 23:00 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 23:40 +0200
      Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 17:40 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 18:40 +0200
          Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 19:10 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 20:20 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 20:30 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-05 18:20 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-05 19:20 +0200
      Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-06 09:10 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 10:20 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-06 18:40 +0200
          Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 21:00 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-07 00:00 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-07 02:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 12:40 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-07 17:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 20:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-07 23:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-08 01:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-08 09:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-09-08 10:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-08 17:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 03:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-09 06:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 07:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-09 07:40 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 07:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-09 08:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 09:40 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-10 11:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 08:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-08 01:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-08 01:30 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 17:40 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-11 20:10 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2022-04-17 02:30 +0200

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