<html><head></head><body>Hello!<br>We've not been able to build ourselves on MIPS yet, we went into some strange problems last time (don't remember exactly). Were you so kind please and could you please help us setting up Debian for MIPS in QEMU if I fail to manage it once more?<br>The main issue was, what hardware to choose and how to boot it. But I'll try once more before asking any detailed question. Then we can replicate your issue and probably even build and test for MIPS.<br>Thank you!<br>Maria<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 2, 2020 4:53:07 AM GMT+02:00, Ross Tajvar <ross@tajvar.io> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am currently using BIRD 1.6.3 on an Edgerouter Pro. The CPU architecture is MIPS and the OS is based on Debian Stretch. Because of the latter, I can use the Debian package repos to install BIRD 1.6.3, however I would like to upgrade to BIRD 2 which does not have a package built. I noticed there is another repo (located at <a href="http://bird.network.cz/debian">http://bird.network.cz/debian</a>) which maintains BIRD 2 for Debian Stretch, however those packages are not built for the MIPS architecture.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried building the package myself in a virtual system emulated with qemu, but the build failed with the following error:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">obj/lib/fletcher16_test 2>/dev/null && touch obj/lib/fletcher16_test.ok<br>obj/lib/fletcher16_test: t_fletcher16_compute 0.007899378s [FAIL]<br>obj/lib/fletcher16_test: t_fletcher16_checksum 0.004199340s [FAIL]<br>obj/lib/fletcher16_test 0.015348769s [FAIL]<br>Makefile:180: recipe for target 'obj/lib/fletcher16_test.ok' failed<br>make[1]: *** [obj/lib/fletcher16_test.ok] Error 1<br>make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/src/debian/bird2-2.0.7'<br>dh_auto_test: make -j1 test VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2<br>debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'build' failed<br>make: *** [build] Error 2<br>dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2<br>debuild: fatal error at line 1116:<br>dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b failed</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Would it be possible to add MIPS as a build target for the <a href="http://bird.network.cz">bird.network.cz</a> repo?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ross</div></div>
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