[tlbuild] tl24 build plans

[Johannes Hielscher]

Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party...



Am Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:05:42 -0700
schrieb Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:

> a new volunteer needs to come forward to build
> them. -k

Why only am I feeling that I might know someone?!

Starting with last year (TL2023) we had actually agreed to go with the
automated contextgarden builds for aarch64-linux, which discharged me
of my duty to build and supply them manually. I'm happy to jump back in
here (although not so happy about the reason).

The aarch64-linux build on my machine (from SVN -r69463) just completed
smoothly.



Am Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:23:39 -0700
schrieb Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:

> aarch64 and armhf, I don't know about. Would anyone miss them?

Across the years, the number of requests (due to me feeling somewhat
responsible for aarch64), were about 1–3 per year. Not a lot, but IMHO
enough to suspect some demand. Let's keep in mind that most distros
have their own packaged binaries anyway -- I've always seen the main
value of the port as a proof-of-concept for upstream taking platform
independence (OS and hardware) seriously.



Am Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:53:45 +0900
schrieb Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>:

> Build times:
> i386, x86_64, x86_64/musl: around 15min
> aarch64: 3h
> armv7: 4h45

Just for the perspective: on real hardware (2019-vintage mid-tier SBC),
the full build took 37 min (plus 7 min for asy).

Hence: supposed my response time stays below two hours, I can easily
outclass GitHub Actions' QEMU (-:



Best,

Johannes