[FIX] s390x: say which machine this port targets

zlib stopped on '__builtin_s390_vec_unpackl' requires '-mvx', after its own
configure had detected vector support and defined -DHAVE_S390X_VX. Both halves
were right, so it was worth measuring rather than patching:

  host gcc (Ubuntu)  --with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16   default -march=arch11
  our  gcc           nothing                           default -march=arch5

arch5 is z900, from 2000. Arch's PKGBUILD names no s390x baseline because Arch
has no s390x, so ours fell back to the oldest machine imaginable while zlib went
on detecting a CPU the compiler had been told to forget. Every distribution
picks one of these; this port had never said which, and silence chose 2000.

z13 is what Ubuntu s390x already requires, so nothing that runs today stops.
Set in two places: makepkg.conf, how this distribution is compiled, and gcc's
--with-arch, what the compiler we ship assumes with no flags at all.

--- FR ---

zlib s'est arrêté sur '__builtin_s390_vec_unpackl' requires '-mvx', après que
son propre configure avait détecté le support vectoriel et défini
-DHAVE_S390X_VX. Les deux moitiés avaient raison : il fallait mesurer, pas
rustiner.

  gcc de l'hôte  --with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16   défaut -march=arch11
  notre gcc      rien                              défaut -march=arch5

arch5, c'est z900, de l'an 2000. Le PKGBUILD d'Arch ne nomme aucune base s390x
puisque Arch n'a pas de s390x : le nôtre retombait sur la machine la plus
ancienne imaginable pendant que zlib détectait un processeur qu'on avait dit au
compilateur d'oublier. Toute distribution en choisit une ; ce portage ne l'avait
jamais dit, et le silence a choisi 2000.

z13 est ce qu'Ubuntu s390x exige déjà : rien qui tourne aujourd'hui ne cesse de
tourner. Posé aux deux endroits : makepkg.conf, comment cette distribution est
compilée, et le --with-arch de gcc, ce que suppose le compilateur qu'on livre.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
This commit is contained in:
Mathieu Benoit 2026-08-21 00:23:26 -04:00
parent b7caa66f46
commit ef143aac67
6 changed files with 195 additions and 4 deletions

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# ca-certificates: no man page for update-ca-trust.
#
# a2x: command not found
#
# a2x belongs to asciidoc, a Python toolchain whose only job here is turning
# update-ca-trust.8.txt into update-ca-trust.8. TWO lines have to go, not one:
# build() renders it and package() installs it. Removing only the render leaves
#
# install: cannot stat 'update-ca-trust.8'
#
# which is the same shape as libxml2's docs split -- a failure on the last line
# of package(), naming a path, after a build that worked.
set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'ZZPY'
import io, re
lines = io.open("PKGBUILD", encoding="utf-8").read().split("\n")
a2x = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if re.match(r"^[ \t]*a2x\b", l)]
man = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if "update-ca-trust.8" in l and "install " in l]
assert len(a2x) == 1, "ca-certificates: expected one a2x call, got %d" % len(a2x)
assert len(man) == 1, "ca-certificates: expected one man install, got %d" % len(man)
lines[a2x[0]] = " # a2x removed: no asciidoc toolchain at either stage."
lines[man[0]] = " # man page not installed: nothing rendered it."
out = [l.replace(" asciidoc\n", "") for l in lines]
io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(out))
ZZPY
grep -q "a2x removed" PKGBUILD && grep -q "nothing rendered it" PKGBUILD || {
echo "ca-certificates: one of the two lines was not replaced" >&2; exit 1; }
echo "ca-certificates: update-ca-trust man page dropped"

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patches/pkgbuild/cryptsetup.sh Executable file
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# cryptsetup: no asciidoctor, so no rendered man pages.
#
# configure: error: Building man pages requires asciidoctor installed.
#
# asciidoctor is Ruby. Packaging Ruby to render cryptsetup's man pages is the
# largest of the three documentation closures this port declined, and the least
# justified: the error names the flag that turns it off.
set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'ZZPY'
import io, re
lines = io.open("PKGBUILD", encoding="utf-8").read().split("\n")
hit = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if re.match(r"^[ \t]*\./configure\b", l)]
assert len(hit) == 1, "cryptsetup: expected one ./configure, got %d" % len(hit)
i = hit[0]
indent = re.match(r"^[ \t]*", lines[i]).group(0)
assert lines[i].rstrip().endswith("\\"), "cryptsetup: ./configure does not continue"
lines.insert(i + 1, indent + " --disable-asciidoc \\")
out = [l.replace(" 'asciidoctor'", "") if "makedepends" in l else l for l in lines]
io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(out))
ZZPY
grep -A1 -E "^[[:space:]]*\./configure" PKGBUILD | grep -q -- '--disable-asciidoc' || {
echo "cryptsetup: the flag is not on ./configure" >&2; exit 1; }
echo "cryptsetup: man pages disabled"

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patches/pkgbuild/fakeroot.sh Executable file
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# fakeroot: no translated man pages.
#
# po4a: command not found
#
# build() ends on a po4a call that renders the man page into every language it
# has a catalogue for. po4a is Perl, and packaging it means packaging its module
# stack -- perl-yaml-tiny, perl-syntax-keyword-try, perl-term-readkey,
# perl-locale-gettext and more -- so that fakeroot's man page exists in Polish.
#
# fakeroot is not optional the way its man pages are: makepkg cannot build a
# package without it. Same arbitration as --auto-features auto in
# build-stage2.sh, and the same note for stage 3.
set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'ZZPY'
import io, re
lines = io.open("PKGBUILD", encoding="utf-8").read().split("\n")
hit = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if re.match(r"^[ \t]*po4a\b", l)]
assert len(hit) == 1, "fakeroot: expected one po4a call, got %d" % len(hit)
lines[hit[0]] = " # po4a call removed: no Perl module stack at either stage."
out = []
for l in lines:
# makedepends too, or --nodeps is the only thing hiding the gap.
out.append(l.replace(" 'po4a'", "") if "makedepends" in l else l)
io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(out))
ZZPY
grep -qE "^[ \t]*po4a " PKGBUILD && { echo "fakeroot: a po4a call survived" >&2; exit 1; }
grep -q "po4a call removed" PKGBUILD || { echo "fakeroot: nothing was removed" >&2; exit 1; }
echo "fakeroot: translated man pages dropped"

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grep -qF 'ln -sfv ../../../libgcc_s.so.1' PKGBUILD || {
echo "gcc: libgcc_s.so link not repointed" >&2; exit 1; }
echo "gcc: libgcc_s.so repointed to ../../../libgcc_s.so.1"
# --- the baseline CPU of the compiler we SHIP ---------------------------------
#
# Arch's PKGBUILD names no s390x baseline, because Arch has no s390x. GCC's own
# fallback for this target is arch5 -- z900, from the year 2000 -- and that is
# what our gcc defaulted to while the host's Ubuntu gcc is configured
# --with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16. The consequence was not a warning:
#
# contrib/crc32vx/crc32_vx.c:205:10: error:
# '__builtin_s390_vec_unpackl' requires '-mvx'
#
# zlib's configure had detected vector support and defined -DHAVE_S390X_VX,
# then compiled with a compiler told to assume a machine that has none.
#
# build-stage2.sh sets the same pair in the chroot's makepkg.conf, which governs
# how this distribution is COMPILED. This governs what the compiler we HAND OVER
# assumes when someone builds on the target with no flags at all. Doing only the
# first leaves a gcc that silently goes back to 2000.
#
# z13 because that is what the host distribution already requires: adopting it
# cannot stop anything from running that runs today.
python3 - <<'ZZPY'
import io, re
lines = io.open("PKGBUILD", encoding="utf-8").read().split("\n")
hit = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if "--enable-languages=" in l and "jit" not in l]
assert len(hit) == 1, "gcc: expected one main --enable-languages line, got %d" % len(hit)
i = hit[0]
indent = re.match(r"^[ \t]*", lines[i]).group(0)
assert lines[i].rstrip().endswith("\\"), "gcc: --enable-languages does not continue"
lines.insert(i + 1, indent + "--with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16 \\")
io.open("PKGBUILD", "w", encoding="utf-8").write("\n".join(lines))
ZZPY
grep -q -- '--with-arch=z13' PKGBUILD || { echo "gcc: baseline not set" >&2; exit 1; }
# On the configure line, not merely in the file.
#
# The first version of this check anchored on --enable-languages=ada and failed
# on a PKGBUILD that was correctly patched: a section ABOVE has already
# rewritten the language list, so `ada` is gone by the time this runs. The
# guard was testing its own stale assumption about the file rather than the
# edit -- the fourth time in this port that a check has verified something
# adjacent to what it meant. Anchor on what the python actually matched.
grep -A1 -E -- '--enable-languages=' PKGBUILD | grep -q -- '--with-arch=z13' || {
echo "gcc: --with-arch is in the file but not on the configure line" >&2; exit 1; }
echo "gcc: baseline z13, tune z16"

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# stage 2 tries -- stopped on `rsync: command not found`. The host had it
# from apt, which is exactly why stage 1 never mentioned it.
rsync
# The same class, named by the failures of the first full pass rather than
# guessed at. Each one is here because a package said so:
#
# gperf coreutils, diffutils, systemd, libseccomp
# wget sed, grep, findutils
# patchelf curl
# inetutils gnupg, for hostname
# libxslt shadow, for xsltproc
# swig audit
# help2man flex
gperf wget patchelf inetutils libxslt swig help2man
# libxcrypt-compat, for a reason no declaration expresses. perl declares
# `libxcrypt` and `libcrypt.so`, both satisfied by libxcrypt, which ships
# libcrypt.so.2. But perl's BINARY was linked on the host against Ubuntu's
@ -207,16 +218,46 @@ configure_chroot() {
sudo tee -a "$ROOT/etc/makepkg.conf" > /dev/null <<'EOC'
# --- stage 2: the shipped values are Arch's x86_64 ones ---
CFLAGS=""
CXXFLAGS=""
LDFLAGS=""
#
# THE BASELINE CPU OF THIS PORT, which was being decided by accident.
#
# zlib stopped on
#
# contrib/crc32vx/crc32_vx.c:205:10: error:
# '__builtin_s390_vec_unpackl' requires '-mvx'
#
# after its own configure had detected vector support and defined
# -DHAVE_S390X_VX. Both halves were right, which is what made it worth
# measuring instead of patching:
#
# host gcc (Ubuntu) --with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16 default -march=arch11
# our gcc (nothing) default -march=arch5
#
# arch5 is z900, from 2000. arch11 is z13, from 2015. Arch's PKGBUILD names no
# s390x baseline because Arch has no s390x, so our gcc fell back to the oldest
# machine the port could possibly run on -- and every package using a vector
# intrinsic failed, while zlib's configure went on detecting a CPU the compiler
# had been told to forget.
#
# z13 is not a guess: it is what Ubuntu s390x, the host distribution, already
# requires, so nothing that runs here today stops running. Every distribution
# picks one of these; this port had simply never said which, and silence chose
# the year 2000.
#
# TWO PLACES, because they answer different questions. Here is how this
# distribution is COMPILED. patches/pkgbuild/gcc.sh passes --with-arch to the
# compiler we SHIP, so a build done later on the target assumes the same
# machine. Setting only this one leaves a gcc that quietly reverts to arch5.
CFLAGS="-march=z13 -mtune=z16 -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions"
CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now"
LTOFLAGS=""
RUSTFLAGS=""
DEBUG_CFLAGS=""
DEBUG_CXXFLAGS=""
EOC
sudo grep -E '^(CARCH|CHOST|MAKEFLAGS|OPTIONS)=' "$ROOT/etc/makepkg.conf" | sed 's/^/ /'
printf ' compiler flags: emptied (stage 1 used none)\n'
printf ' baseline: -march=z13 -mtune=z16 (host Ubuntu uses the same)\n'
# --auto-features auto, for this chroot only.
#

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# because rsync links it.
xxhash
rsync
# The rest of that same class, named by stage 2's first full pass rather
# than guessed. 77 packages rebuilt, 57 failed, and fourteen of the
# failures named the tool they wanted outright:
#
# gperf coreutils, diffutils, systemd, libseccomp
# wget sed, grep, findutils
# patchelf curl
# hostname gnupg (inetutils ships it)
# xsltproc shadow (libxslt ships it)
# swig audit
# help2man flex
#
# All small and self-contained. Three more tools were asked for and are NOT
# here -- po4a, asciidoc's a2x, and asciidoctor -- because each brings a
# language runtime (Perl module stack, Python, Ruby) to render
# documentation. Those three packages get a hook instead, the same
# arbitration as --auto-features auto.
gperf
wget
patchelf
inetutils
libxslt
swig
help2man
)