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? 
I would be happy to help if I can - it was pretty easy for me, I mostly followed this guide:  https://markuta.com/how-to-build-a-mips-qemu-image-on-debian/
Feel free to email me directly if you have questions.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:11 AM Maria Matějka <maria.matejka@nic.cz> wrote:
Hello!
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?
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.
Thank you!
Maria

On April 2, 2020 4:53:07 AM GMT+02:00, Ross Tajvar <ross@tajvar.io> wrote:
Hi,

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 http://bird.network.cz/debian) which maintains BIRD 2 for Debian Stretch, however those packages are not built for the MIPS architecture.

I tried building the package myself in a virtual system emulated with qemu, but the build failed with the following error:
obj/lib/fletcher16_test 2>/dev/null && touch obj/lib/fletcher16_test.ok
obj/lib/fletcher16_test: t_fletcher16_compute 0.007899378s               [FAIL]
obj/lib/fletcher16_test: t_fletcher16_checksum 0.004199340s              [FAIL]
obj/lib/fletcher16_test 0.015348769s                                     [FAIL]
Makefile:180: recipe for target 'obj/lib/fletcher16_test.ok' failed
make[1]: *** [obj/lib/fletcher16_test.ok] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/src/debian/bird2-2.0.7'
dh_auto_test: make -j1 test VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2
debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1116:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b failed

Would it be possible to add MIPS as a build target for the bird.network.cz repo?

Thanks,
Ross

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