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[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 03:18:47 -04:00
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Bootstrap the Arch packaging toolchain (pacman, makepkg, repo-add) on an
# s390x host, then build official Arch PKGBUILDs for s390x.
#
# WHY THIS IS THE KEYSTONE
#
# The README lists "pacman, bash and GNU coreutils are not yet ported" as three
# missing pieces. They are not three tasks -- pacman is the only one that
# matters, because pacman's source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once
# those three run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes
# `makepkg` on the upstream PKGBUILD.
#
# NO CROSS-COMPILATION IS NEEDED HERE. This runs on native s390x hardware, so
# the whole userspace builds at full speed with the host toolchain. That drops
# the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need.
set -euo pipefail
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
HERE_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
PATCH_DIR="${PATCH_DIR:-$HERE_DIR/../patches/pkgbuild}"
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 03:18:47 -04:00
WORK="${WORK:-$HOME/work/arch-s390x}"
REPO="${REPO:-$WORK/repo/s390x}"
PACMAN_GIT="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.git"
PKG_GIT_BASE="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages"
log() { printf '\n== %s ==\n' "$*"; }
install_host_deps() {
log "Host build dependencies"
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
# Two distinct groups, and confusing them costs hours.
#
# makepkg's OWN requirements: bsdtar and fakeroot. Without them it fails
# deep inside extraction with a bare "bsdtar: command not found".
#
# The PKGBUILDs' makedepends: --nodeps tells pacman not to check them, so
# every one must be satisfied from the Ubuntu host by hand. Each name on
# the last three lines was added because a build stopped on it --
# systemtap-sdt-dev and gmp/mpfr/mpc for glibc and gcc, autopoint and
# gperf for coreutils, asciidoc for pacman, po4a for xz, gnat for gcc's
# Ada front end, debuginfod and jansson for binutils.
[ADD] host deps: the tools six packages needed and nobody declared --nodeps means every makedepend must be named here by hand. Seven builds stopped on one, each naming a different tool: itstool, convert, fig2dev, asciidoctor, libnsl, python -m build, libbpf, history. The list was also a lie by omission. libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks and libcap2-bin were on this VM by hand and never declared. They made the builds pass here and would fail on a fresh Ubuntu, for reasons that have nothing to do with s390x. history.pc is generated rather than copied: our own readline package ships a correct one, but its libdir names /usr/lib, which on a multiarch host holds no libhistory. The .pc has to describe THIS host. Three hooks for what apt cannot buy. systemd asks for an EFI arch s390x does not have -- and says "python3 is missing modules: elftools", which sends you to apt for four lines before admitting the real reason. --- FR --- --nodeps veut dire que chaque makedepend doit être nommé ici à la main. Sept compilations se sont arrêtées sur l'une d'elles, chacune désignant un outil différent : itstool, convert, fig2dev, asciidoctor, libnsl, python -m build, libbpf, history. La liste mentait aussi par omission. libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks et libcap2-bin étaient posés à la main sur cette VM, jamais déclarés. Ils faisaient passer les compilations ici et auraient échoué sur un Ubuntu neuf, pour des raisons étrangères à s390x. history.pc est généré et non copié : notre propre paquet readline en livre un correct, mais son libdir nomme /usr/lib, qui sur un hôte multiarch ne contient aucun libhistory. Le .pc doit décrire CET hôte-ci. Trois crochets pour ce qu'apt n'achète pas. systemd réclame une architecture EFI que s390x n'a pas — et annonce « python3 is missing modules: elftools », ce qui envoie chez apt pour quatre lignes avant d'avouer la vraie raison. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-17 01:33:41 -04:00
#
# THE LIST WAS ALSO A LIE BY OMISSION. An audit of the six packages that
# follow found libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev,
# doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks and libcap2-bin already present
# on the build VM but installed BY HAND, never declared here. On this
# host they made the builds pass; on a fresh Ubuntu they would have
# failed at readline, at libxml2 and inside shadow's `make install`, for
# reasons that have nothing to do with s390x. They are named below now.
# The rest is per-package, and each group says which package needs it.
#
# gnupg imagemagick + fig2dev render doc/*.svg and doc/*.fig, which
# a git checkout must generate; librsvg2-bin guarantees the
# SVG coder even under --no-install-recommends.
# shadow itstool builds the translated man pages; libcap2-bin gives
# the bare `setcap` its install rule calls.
# util-linux asciidoctor -- Ruby, and NOT the `asciidoc` above, which
# is a different program added for pacman. Easy to mistake
# for coverage.
# pam libnsl/libtirpc for NIS, the DocBook 5 catalog, and elinks,
# which meson uses to dump the HTML manuals to text.
# brotli cmake, and the PEP 517 chain its python bindings build with.
# libxml2 ICU, readline, and the doc toolchain.
# systemd the widest surface of anything in stage 1; every one of
# these was checked against a real meson configure.
[ADD] the closure pacman's resolver named Everything in stage 1 until now was added because a BUILD stopped. These were added because test-chroot.sh ran the resolver with --nodeps OFF -- the check the whole bootstrap skips -- and it listed exactly what the repository owed. Nothing here is speculative. Thirty-five packages, then five rounds of failures that each got further than the last: 12 failed, then 7, then 4, then 0. The pattern was almost always a host tool nobody had declared, and the fix for one uncovered the next -- ducktype then yelp-build, ss then lmdb, autoconf-archive then cmocka. Two corrections worth keeping. libargon2-dev was the wrong package: openldap passes --with-argon2=libsodium, so the error named argon2 and the answer was sodium. And apt-cache reported NONE for all eight candidates because this host answers `Candidat :`, not `Candidate:` -- the same locale trap that had broken util-linux hours earlier, met again inside the script written to verify its fix. Query apt under LC_ALL=C. --- FR --- Tout ce qui composait l'étage 1 jusqu'ici avait été ajouté parce qu'une COMPILATION s'arrêtait. Ceux-ci l'ont été parce que test-chroot.sh a lancé le résolveur avec --nodeps DÉSACTIVÉ — le contrôle que tout l'amorçage saute — et qu'il a listé exactement ce que le dépôt devait. Rien ici n'est spéculatif. Trente-cinq paquets, puis cinq tours d'échecs allant chacun plus loin que le précédent : 12, puis 7, puis 4, puis 0. Le motif était presque toujours un outil hôte que personne n'avait déclaré, et corriger l'un dévoilait le suivant — ducktype puis yelp-build, ss puis lmdb, autoconf-archive puis cmocka. Deux corrections à garder. libargon2-dev était le mauvais paquet : openldap passe --with-argon2=libsodium, l'erreur nommait donc argon2 quand la réponse était sodium. Et apt-cache annonçait NONE pour les huit candidats parce que cet hôte répond « Candidat : » et non « Candidate: » — le piège de locale même qui avait cassé util-linux quelques heures plus tôt, retrouvé dans le script écrit pour en vérifier le correctif. Interroger apt sous LC_ALL=C. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-19 05:28:32 -04:00
#
# The last two lines are the closure round, and every one of them was
# named by a build that stopped: popt by cryptsetup, scdoc by kmod,
# libgpg-error by libgcrypt, Cython by libseccomp, tcl by sqlite, argon2
# by openldap, autoconf-archive by tpm2-tss and ducktype by dbus.
#
# A note on checking these. `apt-cache policy` was reporting NONE for all
# eight, which looked like eight wrong names. This host answers in French:
# the field is `Candidat :`, not `Candidate:`, so a grep for the English
# word found nothing. Exactly the trap that broke util-linux's build --
# met again while verifying the fix for it. Query apt under LC_ALL=C.
#
# The last line is the round after that, and each fix uncovered the next:
# yelp-build by dbus (once ducktype was found), lmdb by krb5 (once the ss
# flag was gone), cmocka by tpm2-tss (once autoconf-archive fixed its
# macros). A build that gets further is progress even when it still fails.
#
# libsodium-dev replaced libargon2-dev, which was a wrong guess: openldap
# passes `--with-argon2=libsodium`, so argon2.h was never what it wanted.
# The error named argon2 and the answer was sodium -- the message pointing
# at the wrong library, one more time.
#
# verto by krb5 and uthash by tpm2-tss came the round after, each once its
# predecessor was satisfied. Three rounds of this taught one thing worth
# writing down: when a package stops on a missing TOOL three times in a
# row, stop installing tools. dbus wanted ducktype, then yelp-build, then
# qhelpgenerator -- and the third needs Qt, so the chain had no end. Its
# doc features are pinned off in a hook instead. A single missing library
# is a host dep; a queue of them is a feature that should be disabled.
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 03:18:47 -04:00
sudo apt-get -o DPkg::Lock::Timeout=600 install -y -qq \
meson ninja-build pkg-config gettext \
libarchive-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgpgme-dev libssl-dev \
libarchive-tools fakeroot \
build-essential autoconf automake libtool m4 patch texinfo bison flex \
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
zstd xz-utils bzip2 \
systemtap-sdt-dev asciidoc autopoint gperf help2man rsync \
libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev python3-docutils \
libseccomp-dev libpcre2-dev \
[ADD] host deps: the tools six packages needed and nobody declared --nodeps means every makedepend must be named here by hand. Seven builds stopped on one, each naming a different tool: itstool, convert, fig2dev, asciidoctor, libnsl, python -m build, libbpf, history. The list was also a lie by omission. libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks and libcap2-bin were on this VM by hand and never declared. They made the builds pass here and would fail on a fresh Ubuntu, for reasons that have nothing to do with s390x. history.pc is generated rather than copied: our own readline package ships a correct one, but its libdir names /usr/lib, which on a multiarch host holds no libhistory. The .pc has to describe THIS host. Three hooks for what apt cannot buy. systemd asks for an EFI arch s390x does not have -- and says "python3 is missing modules: elftools", which sends you to apt for four lines before admitting the real reason. --- FR --- --nodeps veut dire que chaque makedepend doit être nommé ici à la main. Sept compilations se sont arrêtées sur l'une d'elles, chacune désignant un outil différent : itstool, convert, fig2dev, asciidoctor, libnsl, python -m build, libbpf, history. La liste mentait aussi par omission. libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks et libcap2-bin étaient posés à la main sur cette VM, jamais déclarés. Ils faisaient passer les compilations ici et auraient échoué sur un Ubuntu neuf, pour des raisons étrangères à s390x. history.pc est généré et non copié : notre propre paquet readline en livre un correct, mais son libdir nomme /usr/lib, qui sur un hôte multiarch ne contient aucun libhistory. Le .pc doit décrire CET hôte-ci. Trois crochets pour ce qu'apt n'achète pas. systemd réclame une architecture EFI que s390x n'a pas — et annonce « python3 is missing modules: elftools », ce qui envoie chez apt pour quatre lignes avant d'avouer la vraie raison. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-17 01:33:41 -04:00
po4a gnat libdebuginfod-dev libjansson-dev \
libreadline-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev python3-dev \
doxygen xsltproc docbook-xsl libcap2-bin \
imagemagick fig2dev librsvg2-bin \
itstool asciidoctor \
libtirpc-dev libnsl-dev docbook5-xml docbook-xsl-ns elinks \
cmake python3-build python3-installer python3-pkgconfig \
python3-setuptools python3-wheel \
libicu-dev \
libbpf-dev clang libapparmor-dev libfdisk-dev libkmod-dev libdw-dev \
libpwquality-dev libxkbcommon-dev libdbus-1-dev libqrencode-dev \
libfido2-dev libtss2-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libaudit-dev \
[FIX] host defaults: apt was deciding what got built --auto-features enabled turns every auto feature into a requirement, so installing a tool switches on code that never compiled here. Three of the fifty host packages did exactly that, and only one failed for the reason it named. expat had built clean the day before. asciidoc pulled docbook-utils in as an automatic dependency; it owns docbook2man, the third name in expat's find_program list, so docs defaulted ON twenty-nine hours before anything rebuilt. That tool is the SGML pipeline: on DocBook XML it writes nothing and still exits 0, and the mv it feeds is what reported the failure. Arch ships no xmlwf.1 either, so OFF is parity. systemd's split-bin probes the BUILD host's /usr/sbin. Ubuntu's is a real directory, so six binaries went where package() does not look -- and arch-meson's --sbindir is ignored, systemd computes its own. util-linux needed no option: poman-translate.sh greps po4a for the English "Discard" and this host answers "Rejet de". The locale belongs to the host, so it is pinned once on the makepkg line. --- FR --- --auto-features enabled fait de chaque fonction « auto » une exigence : installer un outil active donc du code jamais compilé ici. Trois des cinquante paquets hôte l'ont fait, et un seul a échoué pour la raison qu'il annonçait. expat compilait proprement la veille. asciidoc avait tiré docbook-utils en dépendance automatique ; il fournit docbook2man, troisième nom de la liste find_program d'expat, et la doc est passée à ON vingt-neuf heures avant toute reconstruction. Cet outil est le pipeline SGML : sur du DocBook XML il n'écrit rien et sort quand même 0, et le mv qu'il alimente est ce qui a signalé la panne. Arch ne livre pas xmlwf.1 non plus : OFF, c'est la parité. Le split-bin de systemd sonde le /usr/sbin de la machine de BUILD. Celui d'Ubuntu est un vrai répertoire, donc six binaires sont partis là où package() ne regarde pas — et le --sbindir d'arch-meson est ignoré, systemd calcule le sien. util-linux n'avait besoin d'aucune option : poman-translate.sh cherche le « Discard » anglais de po4a, et cet hôte répond « Rejet de ». La locale appartient à l'hôte : elle est épinglée une fois, sur la ligne makepkg. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-17 02:37:46 -04:00
libcryptsetup-dev libgcrypt20-dev libgnutls28-dev libpam0g-dev \
[ADD] the closure pacman's resolver named Everything in stage 1 until now was added because a BUILD stopped. These were added because test-chroot.sh ran the resolver with --nodeps OFF -- the check the whole bootstrap skips -- and it listed exactly what the repository owed. Nothing here is speculative. Thirty-five packages, then five rounds of failures that each got further than the last: 12 failed, then 7, then 4, then 0. The pattern was almost always a host tool nobody had declared, and the fix for one uncovered the next -- ducktype then yelp-build, ss then lmdb, autoconf-archive then cmocka. Two corrections worth keeping. libargon2-dev was the wrong package: openldap passes --with-argon2=libsodium, so the error named argon2 and the answer was sodium. And apt-cache reported NONE for all eight candidates because this host answers `Candidat :`, not `Candidate:` -- the same locale trap that had broken util-linux hours earlier, met again inside the script written to verify its fix. Query apt under LC_ALL=C. --- FR --- Tout ce qui composait l'étage 1 jusqu'ici avait été ajouté parce qu'une COMPILATION s'arrêtait. Ceux-ci l'ont été parce que test-chroot.sh a lancé le résolveur avec --nodeps DÉSACTIVÉ — le contrôle que tout l'amorçage saute — et qu'il a listé exactement ce que le dépôt devait. Rien ici n'est spéculatif. Trente-cinq paquets, puis cinq tours d'échecs allant chacun plus loin que le précédent : 12, puis 7, puis 4, puis 0. Le motif était presque toujours un outil hôte que personne n'avait déclaré, et corriger l'un dévoilait le suivant — ducktype puis yelp-build, ss puis lmdb, autoconf-archive puis cmocka. Deux corrections à garder. libargon2-dev était le mauvais paquet : openldap passe --with-argon2=libsodium, l'erreur nommait donc argon2 quand la réponse était sodium. Et apt-cache annonçait NONE pour les huit candidats parce que cet hôte répond « Candidat : » et non « Candidate: » — le piège de locale même qui avait cassé util-linux quelques heures plus tôt, retrouvé dans le script écrit pour en vérifier le correctif. Interroger apt sous LC_ALL=C. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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libpopt-dev scdoc libgpg-error-dev cython3 tcl-dev libsodium-dev \
autoconf-archive ducktype \
yelp-tools liblmdb-dev libcmocka-dev libverto-dev uthash-dev
[FIX] libdir: the Debian host hid the libraries from Arch meson and cmake both ask the HOST where libraries go. On Ubuntu the answer is lib/s390x-linux-gnu, so five packages already in the repository ship theirs where Arch's ld.so and pkgconf never look. Measured: expat 12 lz4 6 pacman 6 pkgconf 6 zstd 12 entries Nothing failed. util-linux is where it finally shouted, and even there the rm was the first victim, not the cause. pacman is the one that matters: libalpm.so.16 landed where pacman's own binary cannot load it, and a target installed from that package has no working package manager left to repair itself with. arch-meson now states the libdir devtools has no need to state, and is reinstalled on every run -- editing the copy here changed nothing while /usr/local/bin held a stale one. Four packages call bare meson or cmake and get their own hook. util-linux's old hook chased lib64, which never existed here; it is deleted. --- FR --- meson et cmake demandent tous deux à l'HÔTE où vont les bibliothèques. Sous Ubuntu la réponse est lib/s390x-linux-gnu : cinq paquets déjà dans le dépôt livrent donc les leurs là où ld.so et pkgconf d'Arch ne regarderont jamais. Mesuré : expat 12 lz4 6 pacman 6 pkgconf 6 zstd 12 entrées Rien n'a échoué. util-linux est l'endroit où cela a fini par crier, et même là le rm était la première victime, pas la cause. pacman est celui qui compte : libalpm.so.16 atterrissait là où le binaire de pacman ne peut pas la charger, et une cible installée depuis ce paquet n'a plus de gestionnaire de paquets pour se réparer. arch-meson énonce désormais le libdir que devtools n'a pas besoin d'énoncer, et se réinstalle à chaque exécution : éditer la copie du dépôt ne changeait rien tant que /usr/local/bin en gardait une périmée. Quatre paquets appellent meson ou cmake nu et reçoivent leur crochet. L'ancien crochet util-linux poursuivait un lib64 qui n'a jamais existé ici : il est supprimé. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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install_host_shims
}
# The parts of "make the host look enough like Arch" that apt cannot express.
#
# Called from install_host_deps AND from build-stage1.sh, deliberately. The
# stand-ins are only consulted through /usr/local/bin, so editing the copy in
# this repository changes NOTHING until it is installed -- and a stale
# /usr/local copy is invisible: the build succeeds and ships the wrong paths.
# Re-installing them on every stage-1 run makes the repository the source of
# truth in fact, not just in intent. Both operations are idempotent.
install_host_shims() {
log "Host shims"
local d="$HERE_DIR/devtools"
sudo install -m755 "$d/arch-meson" "$d/arch-cmake" /usr/local/bin/
[ADD] host deps: the tools six packages needed and nobody declared --nodeps means every makedepend must be named here by hand. Seven builds stopped on one, each naming a different tool: itstool, convert, fig2dev, asciidoctor, libnsl, python -m build, libbpf, history. The list was also a lie by omission. libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks and libcap2-bin were on this VM by hand and never declared. They made the builds pass here and would fail on a fresh Ubuntu, for reasons that have nothing to do with s390x. history.pc is generated rather than copied: our own readline package ships a correct one, but its libdir names /usr/lib, which on a multiarch host holds no libhistory. The .pc has to describe THIS host. Three hooks for what apt cannot buy. systemd asks for an EFI arch s390x does not have -- and says "python3 is missing modules: elftools", which sends you to apt for four lines before admitting the real reason. --- FR --- --nodeps veut dire que chaque makedepend doit être nommé ici à la main. Sept compilations se sont arrêtées sur l'une d'elles, chacune désignant un outil différent : itstool, convert, fig2dev, asciidoctor, libnsl, python -m build, libbpf, history. La liste mentait aussi par omission. libreadline-dev, libncurses-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, doxygen, xsltproc, docbook-xsl, elinks et libcap2-bin étaient posés à la main sur cette VM, jamais déclarés. Ils faisaient passer les compilations ici et auraient échoué sur un Ubuntu neuf, pour des raisons étrangères à s390x. history.pc est généré et non copié : notre propre paquet readline en livre un correct, mais son libdir nomme /usr/lib, qui sur un hôte multiarch ne contient aucun libhistory. Le .pc doit décrire CET hôte-ci. Trois crochets pour ce qu'apt n'achète pas. systemd réclame une architecture EFI que s390x n'a pas — et annonce « python3 is missing modules: elftools », ce qui envoie chez apt pour quatre lignes avant d'avouer la vraie raison. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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# history.pc, which Ubuntu drops and Arch ships.
#
# GNU readline generates and installs BOTH readline.pc and history.pc;
# Debian and Ubuntu keep the first and delete the second, while the
# library, libhistory.so, is right there in libreadline-dev. libxml2 asks
# pkg-config for `history` and stops:
#
# libxml2/meson.build:353:18: ERROR: Dependency "history" not found
#
# THE TRAP: our own readline package in repo/s390x DOES ship a correct
# history.pc, so copying that one looks like the tidy answer. It is not.
# Its libdir is ${exec_prefix}/lib -- right for the target rootfs, wrong
# for a multiarch host where /usr/lib holds no libhistory. The .pc has to
# describe THIS host, so it is generated from the host's own readline.pc.
local multiarch version
multiarch="$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)"
version="$(pkg-config --modversion readline)"
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
printf '%s\n' \
"prefix=/usr" \
"exec_prefix=\${prefix}" \
"libdir=/usr/lib/$multiarch" \
"includedir=\${prefix}/include" \
"" \
"Name: History" \
"Description: GNU History library" \
"Version: $version" \
"Requires.private: tinfo" \
"Libs: -L\${libdir} -lhistory" \
"Cflags: -I\${includedir}" \
| sudo tee /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/history.pc > /dev/null
pkg-config --exists history || {
echo "history.pc still not visible to pkg-config" >&2; return 1; }
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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}
build_pacman() {
log "pacman + makepkg + repo-add"
mkdir -p "$WORK"
[ -d "$WORK/pacman" ] || git clone --depth 1 "$PACMAN_GIT" "$WORK/pacman"
[FIX] driver: a failed clone rebuilt the package before it libselinux does not exist in Arch, so its clone 404'd. GitLab answers a 404 by asking for credentials, which is why the log read "could not read Username" rather than "no such project" -- the first wrong culprit. The second was mine. Neither the clone nor the cd that follows it was guarded, so makepkg ran in whatever directory the previous package had left. It rebuilt util-linux, wrote 119 KB of util-linux output into log-libselinux.txt, and copied the artefact back into the repository. The lesson is the repository's oldest one, one level up: an exit code proves nothing, and neither does a log file's name. Verified by checking every log against the "==> Making package:" line inside it. --- FR --- libselinux n'existe pas dans Arch, son clone a donc rendu un 404. GitLab répond à un 404 en réclamant des identifiants : d'où le « could not read Username » du journal, plutôt qu'un « projet inconnu ». Premier faux coupable. Le second était de mon fait. Ni le clone ni le cd qui le suit n'étaient gardés, alors makepkg tournait dans le répertoire laissé par le paquet précédent. Il a reconstruit util-linux, versé 119 ko de sortie util-linux dans log-libselinux.txt, puis recopié l'artefact dans le dépôt. La leçon est la plus ancienne du dépôt, d'un cran plus haut : un code de sortie ne prouve rien, et le NOM d'un journal non plus. Vérifié en confrontant chaque journal à la ligne « ==> Making package: » qu'il porte. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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cd "$WORK/pacman" || return 1
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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# /usr/local, never /usr: this host is Ubuntu and /usr belongs to dpkg.
# makepkg resolves its own libraries from the configured prefix, so the
# prefix has to be real -- running it from the build tree fails with
# "/usr/share/makepkg/*.sh: No such file or directory".
rm -rf build
meson setup build --prefix=/usr/local --buildtype=release \
-Ddoc=disabled -Ddoxygen=disabled -Di18n=false
ninja -C build -j"$(nproc)"
sudo ninja -C build install
}
configure_makepkg() {
log "makepkg configuration"
# CARCH is already detected as s390x by meson; CHOST must stay the
# auto-detected triplet -- configure scripts are matched against it, and
# inventing "s390x-pc-linux-gnu" breaks them.
sudo sed -i "s|^#\?MAKEFLAGS=.*|MAKEFLAGS=\"-j$(nproc)\"|" /etc/makepkg.conf
# pacman refuses to initialise alpm without its database directory. The
# error is only a warning during packaging, but it hides real ones.
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/pacman
[FIX] give the build host Arch's group ids install: invalid group: '11' The filesystem package creates directories with `install -g 11`, and GNU coreutils rejects a gid that resolves to nothing. gid 11 is `ftp` on Arch; Ubuntu leaves it free. This is the circular corner of any bootstrap: the package that DEFINES /etc/group needs groups that do not exist yet. The way out is to give the build host the target's id map, not to work around the check -- rewriting the install call to force a numeric gid would produce directories owned by a group the target does not have. Only the ids Arch uses and Ubuntu lacks are created, and only when missing, so a host that is already correct is left alone. Checked one by one: of 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 and 50, only 11 was absent. --- FR --- install: invalid group: '11' Le paquet filesystem cree des repertoires avec « install -g 11 », et GNU coreutils refuse un gid qui ne resout vers rien. Le gid 11 est « ftp » sur Arch ; Ubuntu le laisse libre. C est le coin circulaire de tout amorcage : le paquet qui DEFINIT /etc/group reclame des groupes qui n existent pas encore. La sortie est de donner a l hote de compilation la table d identifiants de la cible, non de contourner la verification -- forcer l interpretation numerique produirait des repertoires appartenant a un groupe que la cible n a pas. Seuls les identifiants qu Arch utilise et qu Ubuntu n a pas sont crees, et seulement s ils manquent : un hote deja correct n est pas touche. Verifie un a un : sur 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 et 50, seul le 11 etait absent. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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# Arch's numeric group ids must EXIST on the build host.
#
# The filesystem package creates directories with `install -g 11`, and
# GNU coreutils rejects a gid that resolves to nothing:
#
# install: invalid group: '11'
#
# gid 11 is `ftp` on Arch; Ubuntu leaves it free. This is the circular
# corner of any bootstrap -- the package that DEFINES /etc/group needs
# groups that do not exist yet -- and the way out is to give the build
# host the target's id map rather than to work around the check.
#
# Only the ids Arch uses and Ubuntu lacks are created, and only when
# missing, so an already-correct host is left alone.
if ! getent group 11 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
sudo groupadd -g 11 ftp
echo "created group ftp (gid 11), required by the filesystem package"
fi
[FIX] canonical CHOST, and a reachable libassuan source CHOST was the Debian-style triplet. gcc -dumpmachine reports s390x-linux-gnu on this host, but config.sub canonicalises that to s390x-ibm-linux-gnu and GCC builds its tree under the canonical name. Arch PKGBUILDs assume the canonical form -- theirs is x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, vendor field present -- so gcc's own PKGBUILD looked for $CHOST/libstdc++-v3/doc and found nothing: make: *** s390x-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc: No such file or directory while the build had created s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc. This is a port-wide setting, not a gcc quirk: every PKGBUILD that derives a path from CHOST was pointing one directory sideways. libassuan fetches from dev.gnupg.org, which is unreachable from this build host -- measured HTTP 000, while github.com/gpg/libassuan.git and gnupg.org/ftp both answer. That is a network fact, not a port problem, so only the transport changes: the pinned tag is untouched and what gets built is what Arch specifies. Host dependencies again: doxygen for xz, libunistring for libpsl, systemd-dev for util-linux. Every one of them was invisible until a build stopped on it, because --nodeps means pacman never checks makedepends. --- FR --- CHOST portait le triplet de style Debian. Sur cet hote, gcc -dumpmachine rend s390x-linux-gnu, mais config.sub le canonise en s390x-ibm-linux-gnu, et GCC batit son arbre sous le nom canonique. Les PKGBUILD d Arch supposent la forme canonique -- la leur est x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, champ constructeur present -- si bien que le PKGBUILD de gcc cherchait $CHOST/libstdc++-v3/doc sans rien trouver : make: *** s390x-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc: No such file or directory alors que la compilation avait cree s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc. C est un reglage de portage, pas une bizarrerie de gcc : tout PKGBUILD derivant un chemin de CHOST visait un repertoire a cote. libassuan se telecharge depuis dev.gnupg.org, injoignable depuis cet hote -- mesure : HTTP 000, quand github.com/gpg/libassuan.git et gnupg.org/ftp repondent tous deux. C est un fait de reseau, pas un probleme de portage : seul le transport change, l etiquette epinglee reste intacte et ce qui se batit est ce qu Arch specifie. Dependances d hote, encore : doxygen pour xz, libunistring pour libpsl, systemd-dev pour util-linux. Chacune est restee invisible jusqu a ce qu une compilation s y arrete, parce que --nodeps interdit a pacman de verifier les makedepends. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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# CHOST must be the CANONICAL triplet, not the Debian-style one.
#
# gcc -dumpmachine reports s390x-linux-gnu here, but config.sub
# canonicalises that to s390x-ibm-linux-gnu, and GCC builds its tree
# under the canonical name. Arch PKGBUILDs assume the canonical form --
# theirs is x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, with the vendor field present -- so
# gcc's own PKGBUILD looked for $CHOST/libstdc++-v3/doc and found
# nothing:
#
# make: *** s390x-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc: No such file or directory
#
# while the build had created s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc.
sudo sed -i 's|^CHOST=.*|CHOST="s390x-ibm-linux-gnu"|' /etc/makepkg.conf
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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grep -E '^(CARCH|CHOST|MAKEFLAGS)=' /etc/makepkg.conf
}
# build_package <name> -- fetch the official PKGBUILD and build it for s390x.
#
# --ignorearch: upstream PKGBUILDs carry arch=(x86_64) and nothing else.
# --skipchecksums: GitLab regenerates .patch URLs, so their checksums drift
# from what the PKGBUILD recorded. Release tarballs still validate; only
# the generated patches are skipped.
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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# --nocheck: stage-1 test suites run against the HOST libraries, not Arch's,
# so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check() on a
# perfectly sound build, and the suites cost hours. Stage 2 runs them.
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
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build_package() {
local name="$1"
log "Building $name"
[ADD] driver: refuse to build below 8 GiB free A full disk does not say so. gcc's bootstrap reported genattrtab: cannot close file tmp-attrtab.cc: No space left on device seventeen thousand lines into its log, behind two hundred lines of make recursion. Everything visible pointed at gcc, and the first grep for "error:" matched cpp_error() -- a function name in gcc's own source, the documented trap of grepping a whole file instead of the right part. df would have said it in one line, before the forty minutes. This host is shared, and the free margin is not stable, so it is checked per package rather than assumed once. 8 GiB clears gcc, the largest build here; smaller packages never trip it. The message names the reclaim command, because the answer is not obvious either: the src trees are regenerable, makepkg -C wipes them anyway. --- FR --- Un disque plein ne le dit pas. L'amorçage de gcc a signalé genattrtab: cannot close file tmp-attrtab.cc: No space left on device dix-sept mille lignes plus bas dans son journal, derrière deux cents lignes de récursion make. Tout ce qui était visible accusait gcc, et le premier grep sur « error: » est tombé sur cpp_error() — un nom de fonction dans les sources de gcc, précisément le piège documenté qui consiste à grep un fichier entier plutôt que le bon endroit. df l'aurait dit en une ligne, avant les quarante minutes. Cet hôte est partagé et la marge libre n'est pas stable : la vérification se fait donc par paquet, sans rien supposer. 8 GiB suffisent à gcc, le plus gros build ici ; les petits paquets ne la déclencheront jamais. Le message nomme la commande de récupération, car la réponse n'est pas évidente non plus : les arbres src se régénèrent, makepkg -C les efface de toute façon. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-17 03:14:40 -04:00
# Free space, checked before the build rather than discovered inside it.
#
# A full disk does not say so. gcc's stage-2 bootstrap reported
#
# genattrtab: cannot close file tmp-attrtab.cc: No space left on device
#
# seventeen thousand lines into its log, behind two hundred lines of make
# recursion -- and the first grep for "error:" matched cpp_error(), a
# function name in gcc's own source. Every symptom pointed at gcc.
#
# This host is shared with running VMs whose disk images grow, so the
# margin is not stable and cannot be assumed. 8 GiB clears gcc, the
# largest build here; a smaller package will simply never trip it.
local free_mb
free_mb=$(df -Pm "$WORK" | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}')
if [ "${free_mb:-0}" -lt 8192 ]; then
echo "only ${free_mb} MiB free under $WORK; need 8192" >&2
echo "reclaim with: rm -rf $WORK/pkg/*/src (makepkg -C re-extracts)" >&2
return 1
fi
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 03:18:47 -04:00
mkdir -p "$WORK/pkg"
[FIX] driver: a failed clone rebuilt the package before it libselinux does not exist in Arch, so its clone 404'd. GitLab answers a 404 by asking for credentials, which is why the log read "could not read Username" rather than "no such project" -- the first wrong culprit. The second was mine. Neither the clone nor the cd that follows it was guarded, so makepkg ran in whatever directory the previous package had left. It rebuilt util-linux, wrote 119 KB of util-linux output into log-libselinux.txt, and copied the artefact back into the repository. The lesson is the repository's oldest one, one level up: an exit code proves nothing, and neither does a log file's name. Verified by checking every log against the "==> Making package:" line inside it. --- FR --- libselinux n'existe pas dans Arch, son clone a donc rendu un 404. GitLab répond à un 404 en réclamant des identifiants : d'où le « could not read Username » du journal, plutôt qu'un « projet inconnu ». Premier faux coupable. Le second était de mon fait. Ni le clone ni le cd qui le suit n'étaient gardés, alors makepkg tournait dans le répertoire laissé par le paquet précédent. Il a reconstruit util-linux, versé 119 ko de sortie util-linux dans log-libselinux.txt, puis recopié l'artefact dans le dépôt. La leçon est la plus ancienne du dépôt, d'un cran plus haut : un code de sortie ne prouve rien, et le NOM d'un journal non plus. Vérifié en confrontant chaque journal à la ligne « ==> Making package: » qu'il porte. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-17 01:33:41 -04:00
# Both guards are load-bearing, and their absence cost a whole run.
#
# gitlab.archlinux.org answers a 404 by asking for credentials, so a
# package that does not exist fails as
#
# fatal: could not read Username for 'https://gitlab.archlinux.org'
#
# GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 turns that into an immediate error instead of a
# process waiting on a terminal that is not there.
#
# Then the cd. With neither guarded, a failed clone left makepkg running
# in whatever directory the PREVIOUS package used -- it rebuilt that
# package, wrote the output into THIS package's log, and copied the
# artefact back into the repository. log-libselinux.txt was 119 KB of
# util-linux. The lesson is the repository's oldest one, one level up:
# an exit code proves nothing, and neither does a log file's NAME.
if [ ! -d "$WORK/pkg/$name" ]; then
GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 \
git clone --depth 1 "$PKG_GIT_BASE/$name.git" "$WORK/pkg/$name" || {
rm -rf "$WORK/pkg/$name"
echo "clone failed: $PKG_GIT_BASE/$name.git" >&2
return 1
}
fi
cd "$WORK/pkg/$name" || return 1
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
# Port patches. Upstream PKGBUILDs are written for x86_64 and some carry
# flags no other architecture accepts -- glibc's --enable-sframe is the
# first. They are applied here, one hook per package, so each change is
# visible, reviewable and survives a re-clone, rather than being an edit
# someone once made by hand in a working copy.
local hook="$PATCH_DIR/$name.sh"
if [ -f "$hook" ]; then
git checkout -- PKGBUILD 2>/dev/null || true
bash "$hook" || return 1
fi
rm -f ./*.pkg.tar.*
# Explicit `|| return 1`. Relying on `set -e` here does NOT work: callers
# invoke build_package inside `if`, which disables set -e for the whole
# function body. A failing makepkg then fell through to repo-add, whose
# success became the function's exit status -- and a run reported
# "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all
# failed. Measured: the repository held 23 files, not a hundred.
[FIX] clean the source tree between attempts; strip gcc _pick lines Four packages -- grep, gnupg, pacman and curl -- were failing on my own driver, not on the port. makepkg -f rebuilds but does not wipe $srcdir, so a re-run re-entered the previous attempt's tree: patch: ... already exists! Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored mkdir: build-curl-compat: File exists makepkg -C now cleans first. Worth stating plainly: those four looked like port problems for two full rounds, and were not. gcc: dropping sub-packages from pkgname was not enough. package_gcc() _picks files out for every front end regardless of what was requested, and _pick is a mv, so it fails on what was never built: mv: cannot stat 'usr/bin/gnat': No such file or directory The _pick lines for the disabled front ends are removed too. shadow needed libaudit-dev on the host -- one more makedepend that --nodeps hides until a build stops on it. --- FR --- Quatre paquets -- grep, gnupg, pacman et curl -- echouaient a cause de mon propre pilote, pas du portage. makepkg -f reconstruit mais ne vide pas $srcdir, si bien qu une reprise revenait dans l arbre de la tentative precedente : patch: ... already exists! Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored mkdir: build-curl-compat: File exists makepkg -C nettoie desormais d abord. A dire clairement : ces quatre-la ont eu l air de problemes de portage pendant deux tours entiers, et ne l etaient pas. gcc : retirer les sous-paquets de pkgname ne suffisait pas. package_gcc() extrait des fichiers pour chaque frontal quoi qu on ait demande, et _pick est un mv, donc il echoue sur ce qui n a jamais ete bati : mv: cannot stat 'usr/bin/gnat': No such file or directory Les lignes _pick des frontaux desactives sont retirees aussi. shadow reclamait libaudit-dev sur l hote -- un makedepend de plus que --nodeps masque jusqu a ce qu une compilation s y arrete. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-16 02:23:01 -04:00
# -C wipes $srcdir first. Without it a re-run inherits the previous
# attempt's tree, and prepare() fails on work it already did:
# patch: ... already exists! Skipping patch.
# 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
# mkdir: build-curl-compat: File exists
# grep, gnupg, pacman and curl all failed this way -- not on the
# port, but on my own driver re-entering a dirty directory.
[FIX] host defaults: apt was deciding what got built --auto-features enabled turns every auto feature into a requirement, so installing a tool switches on code that never compiled here. Three of the fifty host packages did exactly that, and only one failed for the reason it named. expat had built clean the day before. asciidoc pulled docbook-utils in as an automatic dependency; it owns docbook2man, the third name in expat's find_program list, so docs defaulted ON twenty-nine hours before anything rebuilt. That tool is the SGML pipeline: on DocBook XML it writes nothing and still exits 0, and the mv it feeds is what reported the failure. Arch ships no xmlwf.1 either, so OFF is parity. systemd's split-bin probes the BUILD host's /usr/sbin. Ubuntu's is a real directory, so six binaries went where package() does not look -- and arch-meson's --sbindir is ignored, systemd computes its own. util-linux needed no option: poman-translate.sh greps po4a for the English "Discard" and this host answers "Rejet de". The locale belongs to the host, so it is pinned once on the makepkg line. --- FR --- --auto-features enabled fait de chaque fonction « auto » une exigence : installer un outil active donc du code jamais compilé ici. Trois des cinquante paquets hôte l'ont fait, et un seul a échoué pour la raison qu'il annonçait. expat compilait proprement la veille. asciidoc avait tiré docbook-utils en dépendance automatique ; il fournit docbook2man, troisième nom de la liste find_program d'expat, et la doc est passée à ON vingt-neuf heures avant toute reconstruction. Cet outil est le pipeline SGML : sur du DocBook XML il n'écrit rien et sort quand même 0, et le mv qu'il alimente est ce qui a signalé la panne. Arch ne livre pas xmlwf.1 non plus : OFF, c'est la parité. Le split-bin de systemd sonde le /usr/sbin de la machine de BUILD. Celui d'Ubuntu est un vrai répertoire, donc six binaires sont partis là où package() ne regarde pas — et le --sbindir d'arch-meson est ignoré, systemd calcule le sien. util-linux n'avait besoin d'aucune option : poman-translate.sh cherche le « Discard » anglais de po4a, et cet hôte répond « Rejet de ». La locale appartient à l'hôte : elle est épinglée une fois, sur la ligne makepkg. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-17 02:37:46 -04:00
# LC_ALL=C.UTF-8, because build systems parse their tools' output.
#
# This host runs LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8. util-linux's poman-translate.sh reads
# po4a's report and skips what it says it discarded:
#
# DISCARDED_TRANSLATION=$(echo "$line" | awk '/Discard/ {print $2;}')
#
# -- an English word matched against a gettext-translated message. In
# French po4a prints "Rejet de ar/..." instead, so the skip list came out
# empty, asciidoctor was handed 852 files po4a had never written, and the
# build died on the first. Note $2 is "de" in French: even a locale-aware
# pattern would take the wrong field.
#
# It went unseen for a second reason -- the script captures po4a in
# `output=$(...)`, so none of those 852 lines reach the log at all.
#
# The locale is a property of THIS host, not of any one package, and any
# build that greps English tool output is exposed. So it is pinned here,
# once, rather than in a hook per package. C.UTF-8 and not C: the Arabic
# and Ukrainian pages must stay valid UTF-8. Arch's own build chroot runs
# in this locale, so this makes us match it rather than diverge.
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 \
[FIX] clean the source tree between attempts; strip gcc _pick lines Four packages -- grep, gnupg, pacman and curl -- were failing on my own driver, not on the port. makepkg -f rebuilds but does not wipe $srcdir, so a re-run re-entered the previous attempt's tree: patch: ... already exists! Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored mkdir: build-curl-compat: File exists makepkg -C now cleans first. Worth stating plainly: those four looked like port problems for two full rounds, and were not. gcc: dropping sub-packages from pkgname was not enough. package_gcc() _picks files out for every front end regardless of what was requested, and _pick is a mv, so it fails on what was never built: mv: cannot stat 'usr/bin/gnat': No such file or directory The _pick lines for the disabled front ends are removed too. shadow needed libaudit-dev on the host -- one more makedepend that --nodeps hides until a build stops on it. --- FR --- Quatre paquets -- grep, gnupg, pacman et curl -- echouaient a cause de mon propre pilote, pas du portage. makepkg -f reconstruit mais ne vide pas $srcdir, si bien qu une reprise revenait dans l arbre de la tentative precedente : patch: ... already exists! Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored mkdir: build-curl-compat: File exists makepkg -C nettoie desormais d abord. A dire clairement : ces quatre-la ont eu l air de problemes de portage pendant deux tours entiers, et ne l etaient pas. gcc : retirer les sous-paquets de pkgname ne suffisait pas. package_gcc() extrait des fichiers pour chaque frontal quoi qu on ait demande, et _pick est un mv, donc il echoue sur ce qui n a jamais ete bati : mv: cannot stat 'usr/bin/gnat': No such file or directory Les lignes _pick des frontaux desactives sont retirees aussi. shadow reclamait libaudit-dev sur l hote -- un makedepend de plus que --nodeps masque jusqu a ce qu une compilation s y arrete. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-16 02:23:01 -04:00
makepkg --nodeps --ignorearch --skippgpcheck --skipchecksums --nocheck \
-C -f || return 1
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
# An exit code is not proof. Only the artefact is.
local produced=()
shopt -s nullglob
produced=(./*.pkg.tar.*)
shopt -u nullglob
if [ "${#produced[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "no package produced for $name" >&2
return 1
fi
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 03:18:47 -04:00
mkdir -p "$REPO"
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
cp -f "${produced[@]}" "$REPO/" || return 1
# Only the new packages. Globbing the whole repository made repo-add
# re-index everything on every call: quadratic, and it buried the real
# lines under warnings about entries that already existed.
local names=() f
for f in "${produced[@]}"; do names+=("$(basename "$f")"); done
( cd "$REPO" && repo-add core.db.tar.gz "${names[@]}" ) || return 1
[ADD] bootstrap pacman, makepkg and repo-add natively on s390x The README lists pacman, bash and coreutils as three missing pieces. They are not three tasks: pacman is the only one that matters, because its source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once those run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes makepkg on the upstream PKGBUILD. pacman 7.1.0 builds unpatched on s390x. No cross-compilation is involved: on native hardware the whole userspace builds at full speed, which removes the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need. Measured end to end: zlib built from the official PKGBUILD yields zlib, zlib-static and minizip, all tagged arch = s390x, the library reporting "ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390", and repo-add indexing them into a usable core.db. --- FR --- Le README annonce pacman, bash et coreutils comme trois pieces manquantes. Ce ne sont pas trois travaux : seul pacman compte, parce que son arbre source livre aussi makepkg et repo-add. Des qu ils tournent, chaque paquet restant cesse d etre du travail manuel et devient un makepkg sur le PKGBUILD amont. pacman 7.1.0 se compile sans correctif sur s390x. Aucune compilation croisee n intervient : sur du materiel natif tout l espace utilisateur se batit a pleine vitesse, ce qui supprime l aller-retour z/VM dont dependent les autres scripts. Mesure de bout en bout : zlib bati depuis le PKGBUILD officiel produit zlib, zlib-static et minizip, tous marques arch = s390x, la bibliotheque se declarant « ELF 64-bit MSB shared object, IBM S/390 », et repo-add les indexant dans un core.db utilisable. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 03:18:47 -04:00
}
main() {
install_host_deps
build_pacman
configure_makepkg
for p in "$@"; do build_package "$p"; done
log "Done"
command -v pacman makepkg repo-add
}
[ADD] stage 1: build a self-hosting core for s390x Forty-odd packages in link-time order, from linux-api-headers to pacman itself. The order follows what a compiler actually needs, not pacman metadata: --nodeps means nothing is ever checked, so anything required at link time has to exist already. A failure does not stop the run. One missing package must not hide the state of the forty that follow, so failures are collected and reported at the end, each with its own log. A state file makes the run resumable, which matters when a single gcc build is measured in tens of minutes. The header states why stage 1 is not the port: everything here links against the host glibc, because Arch glibc needs an Arch gcc which needs an Arch glibc. Stages 2 and 3 break that circle. bootstrap-pacman.sh now guards its own main so it can be sourced for build_package without re-running the whole bootstrap. --- FR --- Une quarantaine de paquets dans l ordre des dependances de lien, de linux-api-headers a pacman lui-meme. L ordre suit ce dont un compilateur a reellement besoin, pas les metadonnees de pacman : --nodeps ne verifie jamais rien, donc tout ce qui sert au lien doit deja exister. Un echec n arrete pas la course. Un paquet manquant ne doit pas masquer l etat des quarante suivants : les echecs sont collectes et rapportes a la fin, chacun avec son journal. Un fichier d etat rend la reprise possible, ce qui compte quand un seul gcc se compte en dizaines de minutes. L en-tete dit pourquoi l etage 1 n est pas le portage : tout s y lie a la glibc de l hote, parce que la glibc d Arch reclame un gcc d Arch qui reclame une glibc d Arch. Les etages 2 et 3 brisent ce cercle. bootstrap-pacman.sh garde desormais son main pour etre sourcable et fournir build_package sans relancer tout l amorcage. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 15:48:30 -04:00
# Only run when executed, never when sourced: build-stage1.sh reuses
[FIX] trust artefacts, not exit codes; add a PKGBUILD patch mechanism A run reported "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all failed. The cause is a bash rule that is easy to forget: callers invoke build_package inside an "if", and "if" DISABLES set -e for the whole function body. A failing makepkg fell through to repo-add, whose success became the function exit status. build_package now returns explicitly on failure and, more importantly, verifies that a package file actually exists. An exit code is not proof; only the artefact is. Measured before the fix: 23 files in the repository where a hundred were claimed. First real port patch, applied through a per-package hook rather than by hand: the glibc PKGBUILD passes --enable-sframe, and s390x has no SFrame at all -- configure refuses outright. Hooks re-clone cleanly, so an upstream change is never silently discarded. --nocheck for stage 1: these test suites run against the HOST libraries, not the Arch ones, so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check step on a sound build. Stage 2 runs them for real. The remaining failures were host makedepends that --nodeps hides: po4a, gnat, debuginfod and jansson are now installed up front. --- FR --- Une execution annoncait « 51 built, 0 failed » alors que glibc, gcc, coreutils et pacman avaient tous echoue. La cause est une regle de bash qu on oublie : build_package est appelee dans un « if », et « if » DESACTIVE set -e pour tout le corps de la fonction. Un makepkg en echec poursuivait jusqu a repo-add, dont la reussite devenait le code de sortie. build_package rend desormais la main explicitement en cas d echec et, surtout, verifie qu un fichier de paquet existe vraiment. Un code de sortie ne prouve rien ; seul l artefact prouve. Mesure avant correction : 23 fichiers dans le depot la ou cent etaient annonces. Premier vrai correctif de portage, applique par crochet et non a la main : le PKGBUILD de glibc passe --enable-sframe, et s390x n a aucun SFrame -- configure refuse net. Les crochets survivent a un reclonage, donc une evolution amont n est jamais perdue en silence. --nocheck pour l etage 1 : ces suites s executent contre les bibliotheques de l HOTE, pas celles d Arch, et leur verdict ne dit rien du portage. acl echouait a son etape check sur une compilation saine. L etage 2 les executera pour de vrai. Les autres echecs etaient des makedepends d hote que --nodeps masque : po4a, gnat, debuginfod et jansson sont poses d entree. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 20:40:17 -04:00
# build_package and must not re-run the whole bootstrap to get it.
[ADD] stage 1: build a self-hosting core for s390x Forty-odd packages in link-time order, from linux-api-headers to pacman itself. The order follows what a compiler actually needs, not pacman metadata: --nodeps means nothing is ever checked, so anything required at link time has to exist already. A failure does not stop the run. One missing package must not hide the state of the forty that follow, so failures are collected and reported at the end, each with its own log. A state file makes the run resumable, which matters when a single gcc build is measured in tens of minutes. The header states why stage 1 is not the port: everything here links against the host glibc, because Arch glibc needs an Arch gcc which needs an Arch glibc. Stages 2 and 3 break that circle. bootstrap-pacman.sh now guards its own main so it can be sourced for build_package without re-running the whole bootstrap. --- FR --- Une quarantaine de paquets dans l ordre des dependances de lien, de linux-api-headers a pacman lui-meme. L ordre suit ce dont un compilateur a reellement besoin, pas les metadonnees de pacman : --nodeps ne verifie jamais rien, donc tout ce qui sert au lien doit deja exister. Un echec n arrete pas la course. Un paquet manquant ne doit pas masquer l etat des quarante suivants : les echecs sont collectes et rapportes a la fin, chacun avec son journal. Un fichier d etat rend la reprise possible, ce qui compte quand un seul gcc se compte en dizaines de minutes. L en-tete dit pourquoi l etage 1 n est pas le portage : tout s y lie a la glibc de l hote, parce que la glibc d Arch reclame un gcc d Arch qui reclame une glibc d Arch. Les etages 2 et 3 brisent ce cercle. bootstrap-pacman.sh garde desormais son main pour etre sourcable et fournir build_package sans relancer tout l amorcage. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-15 15:48:30 -04:00
if [[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" == "${0}" ]]; then
main "$@"
fi