Re: [PATCH] webkitgtk, gcr, libsecret: force ARM mode

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:45:43PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> On 10/10/15 17:32, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > Did you enable thumb in that build? It's not enabled by default.
> > 
> > ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET is for recipes to use arm when distro selects thumb by
> > default.
> 
> I assumed it was enabled by default if it was listed on the list printed
> on TUNE_FEATURES when starting bitbake. Seems not.
> 
> I manually enabled it on the recipe of webkitgtk+ by setting
> 'ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "thumb"' and I was able to reproduce the build
> failure.
> 
> However, later I tried doing the same for a standard armv7a machine and
> it built fine.
> 
> qemuarm is arvm6 with thumb1, and any armv7 or newer machine will prefer
> thumb2 instead. The compiler would automatically use thumb2 when
> enabling -mthumb on a armv7 or newer march.
> 
> So, it built fine with -march=armv7-a -mthumb
> 
> Given that most people building webkitgtk+ will use armv7 or newer, I
> don't think disabling the possibility of building webkitgtk+ with thumb
> (thumb2) unconditionally is a good idea.
> 
> I also tested to build gcr and libsecret. Both build also fine with
> -mthumb on armv7.
> 
> 
> So, could we set ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET=arm only for armv6 or older
> machines in this 3 recipes?

Yes, that would be better, I'm still waiting for answer about other
layers, see:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7717#c6

In the meantime I'm using this to keep my world builds going.

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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