bug#44383: gst-plugins-good fails its test suite on armhf-linux

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Marius,

Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Here's the output for the failing tests:
>
> This is using QEMU transparent emulation, right?

Yes.

> There is a substitute on Berlin:
>
> $ guix weather -s armhf-linux gst-plugins-good
> computing 1 package derivations for armhf-linux...
> looking for 1 store items on https://ci.guix.gnu.org...
> updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org
>   100.0% substitutes available (1 out of 1)
>   at least 4.1 MiB of nars (compressed)
>   5.5 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
>   1.402 seconds per request (1.4 seconds in total)
>   0.7 requests per second
>
> I'm not sure to what extent we should patch packages to work with QEMU
> transparent emulation.  And currently the CI does not use it at all for
> 32-bit ARM (albeit for rather different reasons).

Do we have reasons to believe the QEMU user-mode emulation is not
reliable/accurate?  That'd be a bummer.  I haven't seen any disclaimer
in QEMU's documentation ?

Thanks,

Maxim