Build is failing on aarch64-linux

[Hellseher]

Hi,

I happy to announce that your project is packed to Guix and have available substitutions (built binaries) for the systems:

• x86_64-linux
• i686-linux
• powerpc64le-linux https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/alfa/

However CI was failed on aarch64-linux build (system and target)

Ways to reproduce via Guix time machine:

guix time-machine --commit=2775bb95c7e4ecfaf81af579e8003dddedab6960 -- build --system=aarch64-linux alfa
...
 22:46:35 : flagging blends
            estimating uncertainties
            H beta detected with flux 4.910E+01 - normalising to 100.0
 23:03:03 : [107] CFITSIO error:          308 bad first element number
            thread            0 , unit           51
make: *** [Makefile:103: fittest] Error 107
...

You may use Guix as stand alone system or package manager available from Debian and Ubuntu.

Thanks, Oleg

[rwesson]

Nice to know that ALFA has been packaged for Guix - thanks! I am almost certain that this bug is coming from CFITSIO and not from ALFA itself. I have seen this failure when building for arm64 on launchpad. I see that version 3.49 of CFITSIO is in Guix, so I guess that was used when building ALFA. It is possible that the recently-released version 4.2 might fix this issue, as the changelog mentions ARM architectures. I can't easily test this myself unfortunately.

[Hellseher]

Hi,

You are right, with the latest CFITSIO library build with Fortrant and Curl added, ALFA passed build on aarch64-linux machine!

> ./pre-inst-env guix build --system=aarch64-linux alfa
...
successfully built /gnu/store/pch77m4gi8xi9y0qn6dc15k7jvki8a5g-alfa-2.2.drv

[rwesson]

That's great to know - thanks for the update, and for the packaging!