Bug 923968 – dev-python/pyarrow-15.0.0 fails to configure on sparc: CMake Error at cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake:42 (message): Unknown system processor

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description matoro 2024-02-07 05:10:21 UTC]

Not actually unsupported, just needs trivial upstream fix (see loongarch etc...no reason for this code to not be generic

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/cpp/cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake#L26-L44


-- System processor: sparc64
CMake Error at cmake_modules/SetupCxxFlags.cmake:42 (message):
  Unknown system processor
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:163 (include)
 
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
error: command '/usr/bin/cmake' failed with exit code 1

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 matoro 2024-02-07 05:11:42 UTC]

Created attachment 884436 [details]
build.log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Sam James 2024-02-20 06:46:52 UTC]

Missing python@ CC.

[Comment 3 Tupone Alfredo 2024-03-10 19:59:35 UTC]

To try to fix I need the CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR

should be the output of 

uname -m

[Comment 4 Tupone Alfredo 2024-03-10 20:00:31 UTC]

(In reply to Tupone Alfredo from comment #3)
> To try to fix I need the CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR
> 
> should be the output of 
> 
> uname -m

maybe is sparc64 ?

[Comment 5 matoro 2024-03-10 20:01:33 UTC]

(In reply to Tupone Alfredo from comment #4)
> (In reply to Tupone Alfredo from comment #3)
> > To try to fix I need the CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR
> > 
> > should be the output of 
> > 
> > uname -m
> 
> maybe is sparc64 ?

It's provided in the cmake output there, it's "sparc64".

[Comment 6 Michał Górny 2024-03-11 04:07:54 UTC]

(In reply to Tupone Alfredo from comment #3)
> To try to fix I need the CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR

The fix is trivial, and I've already tried it.  Unfortunately, afterwards it crashes with SIGBUS.  Someone needs to investigate that.