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[Gordan Bobic <gordan.bobic@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought EL7 is very much supported with aarch64. If that is the case
won't what you are suggesting effectively abandon EL7?


On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:25 PM Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 8:23 AM Zheng Zhenyu <zheng.zhenyu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Thanks alot for re quick response, the results looks cool. And Also, I
> noticed that the ARM job sometimes are slower than others in the
> fetch_tarball phase, this might due to that our machine is in China and the
> network connection is a little bit slow, I just got the info that our
> machine will be available in Singapore latter this month or ealier next
> month, maybe then we can then provide a machine with faster network which
> can speed up the jobs.
>
> Related to this, I wonder if it would be possible to install a newer
> operating system (or Docker image), such as CentOS 8 or Debian 10 or
> the most recent Fedora.
>
> What prompts me to ask is that I just noticed a compilation failure of
> MariaDB 10.2 that might be addressed by upgrading to a newer compiler:
>
> /buildbot/aarch64-centos-7/build/storage/innobase/row/row0log.cc: In
> function 'dberr_t
>
> _ZL17row_log_apply_opsPK5trx_tP12dict_index_tP15row_merge_dup_tP16ut_stage_alter_t.isra.94(const
> trx_t*, dict_index_t*, row_merge_dup_t*)':
> /buildbot/aarch64-centos-7/build/storage/innobase/row/row0log.cc:3734:1:
> error: could not split insn
>
> More information is available in
> https://buildbot.mariadb.org/#/builders/33/builds/260 (including a
> request to submit a compiler bug report).
>
> I remember seeing that kind of an error for some 64-bit atomic
> operation on a very old GCC targeting x86 (on CentOS 5 maybe?). While
> we have older compilers than GCC 4.8.5 for other instruction set
> architectures, I do not think that we run into internal compiler
> errors very often.
>
> On my AMD64 desktop, I am currently using GCC 9.2.1 and clang 9.0.0.
> As a developer, I prefer to have the most recent versions of tools
> whenever it is possible, for better diagnostics and possibly better
> optimizations.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marko
> --
> Marko Mäkelä, Lead Developer InnoDB
> MariaDB Corporation
>
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