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@maflcko maflcko commented Nov 8, 2019

I think gitian's initial design was that the gitian host arch is equal to the target host arch. This seems overly restrictive in light of cross-compilation. Thus, enable the generic linux64 arch.

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I'm not quite clear what is the exact use case. What is the host arch/OS and what is the guest arch?

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maflcko commented Nov 8, 2019

The gitian host arch and gitian guest arch are always identical. However, it seems overly restrictive to hardcode that arch in the gitian descriptor, as it might be unknown which architecture gitian is run on.

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maflcko commented Nov 8, 2019

Right now it is only possible to run gitian on amd64. With my change it is possible to run it on any 64-bit arch.

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What 64-bit arch specifically are you thinking about here? ARM?

devrandom added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 8, 2019
fafa06d gbuild: Allow for generic linux64 host (MarcoFalke)
@devrandom devrandom merged commit fafa06d into devrandom:master Nov 8, 2019
@maflcko maflcko deleted the 1911-linux64Host branch November 8, 2019 18:37
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