git: dc9bf7d64926 - main - net/asterisk*: Add aarch64 support

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 04:38:53PM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 15/07/21 04:06, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > ...
> > I think ONLY_FOR_ARCHS here clearly outlived its purpose and can just
> > be removed.  It arguably misses MIPS, but we aren't promising much for
> > that tier anyways, and this harness just gets in the way of those who
> > know that they're doing.  After all, there shouldn't be anything
> > inherently architecture-specific about the telephony toolkit, but even
> > if there is, individual BROKEN_$arch would be more appropriate.
> 
> The fact that mips is not included is exactly the reason I did not
> remove ONLY_FOR_ARCHS.
> 
> If what you say is the general consensus I'll be quite happy to get rid
> of it.

You'd likely not get general consensus as most people don't care. :-)

> I guess this compiler mix situation is not an issue anymore.

Right.  I think it's generally bad idea to prematurely restrict software
to certain arches unless it's clearly arch-specific (e.g. comes only in
binary precompiled form or uses asm code).  New arches appear frequently
(e.g. powerpc64le, riscv64) and some go away as well (ia64, sparc64), it
just does not look feasible to maintain those ONLY_FOR_ARCHS lists so
they'd always reflect the reality.

Even if one's port does break on MIPS, one should get a notice from the
build cluster and either fix it, or mark is as BROKEN_$arch, rather than
keep ONLY_FOR_ARCHS which would only get amended, causing needless repo
churn, upon every next time someone discovers that it builds and works
on their architecture of interest.

./danfe