PinePhone: Unable to build stable on arm64

When running pmbootstrap install on arm64 (Debian bullseye on pinebook pro), I encounter following error which is not handled by the troubleshooting page. Also, the tree in .local contains over 500 APKBUILD files and it is unclear which of them to modify. I'm attaching ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/log.txt for further reference: log.txt. This is pmbootstrap version 1.22.0.

tilman@pinebookpro:~$ pmbootstrap status
[21:36:35] *** CONFIG ***
[21:36:35] Device: pine64-pinephone (aarch64, "PINE64 PinePhone")
[21:36:35] Extra packages: vim,file
[21:36:35] User Interface: plasma-mobile
[21:36:35] 
[21:36:35] *** GIT REPOS ***
[21:36:35] Path: /home/tilman/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_git
[21:36:35] - pmaports (v20.05)
[21:36:35] 
[21:36:35] *** CHECKS ***
[21:36:35] All checks passed! \o/
[21:36:35] 
[21:36:35] NOTE: chroot is still active (use 'pmbootstrap shutdown' as necessary)
[21:36:35] Done
tilman@pinebookpro:~$ pmbootstrap install --sdcard=/dev/mmcblk1
[21:36:36] *** (1/5) PREPARE NATIVE CHROOT ***
[21:36:38] *** (2/5) CREATE DEVICE ROOTFS ("pine64-pinephone") ***
[21:36:39] NOTE: You can edit the 'arch=' line inside the APKBUILD
[21:36:39] ERROR: Can't build 'binutils-or1k-elf' for architecture aarch64
[21:36:39] See also: <https://postmarketos.org/troubleshooting>
Run 'pmbootstrap log' for details.

changed the description

By Tilman Lacko on 2020-07-26T19:51:50

Building edge on arm64 works but produces an image with bug #684 (closed).

By Tilman Lacko on 2020-07-26T19:56:14

Seems like pmbootstrap tried to build binutils-cross-embedded for some unknown reason (perhaps to build crust?), which is disabled on anything but x86_64. The solution can be either to enable binutils-cross-embedded for other arches too or to set arch in crust no noarch.

By Dolphin von Chips on 2020-07-27T08:43:59

added category::device type::bug labels

See commit 59a374f6

Limit it to only build or1k-elf from x86_64, because that's what we need to build the crust firmware for the pinephone. More architectures could be enabled on demand.

So you can probably just add aarch64 to the arch variable in the different APKBUILDs in the commit linked above

By Luca Weiss on 2020-07-27T09:59:53

Adding aarch64 to APKBUILD solves this issue. I'm attaching following, rather trivial patch:binutils-cross-embedded-APKBUILD.diff

By Tilman Lacko on 2020-07-27T11:26:58

This change is required for some packages, at least for binutils-cross-embedded, gcc-cross-embedded, newlib-stage1 and gcc-cross-embedded-stage1. I'll try to get through the build and create a patch for all changes that are required to get it running on aarch64.

By Tilman Lacko on 2020-07-27T10:19:45

This is the final patch to make the build succeed on aarch64. I booted the image and it works. pmaports-issue-696-aarch64.patch

By Tilman Lacko on 2020-07-27T11:24:26

added release-v20.05 label

@naml1t Can you please send a merge request with your changes?

By Luca Weiss on 2020-07-28T20:42:53

Done, MR is here: !1464 (merged)

By Tilman Lacko on 2020-07-29T09:53:42

added device-pine64-pinephone label

The linked MR has been merged, but it has been reverted since. However 20.05 is since a long time unsupported, so closing. Please re-open this issue for the latest stable release if the problem is still there.

By Bart Ribbers on 2022-01-28T15:06:59

closed