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Mirrors upstream's wheel:linux-* GitLab jobs (.gitlab/ci_scripts/wheel.sh): 00boot, configure, make wheel, auditwheel repair and the same smoke test, per interpreter. The native dependencies upstream bakes into its lscsoft/lalsuite-manylinux image (cfitsio, HDF5, framel, metaio, GSL, with FFTW/libxml2/MPICH from the distro) are built once from the same pinned tarballs in a deps job and reused by every interpreter leg.
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GSL 2.8 ships a config.guess that cannot identify riscv64
("cannot guess build type"); use the image's automake copies.
pipx install --force cannot recreate the venv in manylinux_2_39_riscv64
("Activate.ps1 ... are the same file"); install the pinned version into
the venv that already provides patchelf instead.
SWIG 4.5.0, which the riscv64 manylinux image now ships, no longer provides %typemaps_string_alloc, so lal/swig/SWIGCommon.i fails to parse. Upstream's released 7.26.15 wrappers were generated by SWIG 4.3.1 (per the generated _lal_swig.py headers); install that version from PyPI into the build venv and point configure at it.
Upstream's released 7.26.15 wheels contain neither lalinference_mcmc nor lalinference_kombine and bundle no libmpi, i.e. configure's --enable-mpi found no mpicc there, even though the lalsuite-manylinux image carries a `module load mpi` in its docker-entrypoint. Loading the module here built them, and Rocky 10's MPICH 4.1 headers (QMPI prototypes with an 'assert' parameter) then trip lalsuite's '#pragma GCC poison assert' under --enable-strict-defs.
framel's tarball is a GitLab -/archive/ URL, which GitLab regenerates on request, so its bytes can differ from the pinned SHA-512 between fetches (seen elsewhere in this repo). Retry a few times instead of failing the deps or gpl_sources job on the first mismatch; the check itself is kept.
…/metaio libraries wheel/setup.cfg's `license_file = COPYING` replaces setuptools' default license_files glob outright, so every LICENSE.<dep> file the build already drops into the wheel project root was silently excluded from the wheel's dist-info/licenses/, failing the in-wheel license audit for cfitsio, fftw, framel, gsl and hdf5. Patch the override away so the default glob applies, and apply the patch to the cloned checkout before building.
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The license-audit fix (72fecdb) is confirmed working: on A different, unrelated failure surfaced further down the same job, previously masked because the license-audit assertion always aborted the script before reaching it:
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lalapps_version segfaults after installing the wheel, on every interpreter, despite the patchelf<0.16.1 pin already applied above for this same upstream issue. lalsuite#626 shows the same crash on upstream's own x86_64 manylinux image, so it isn't riscv64-specific; upstream's own fix attempt (lalsuite!2061, "Skip lalapps_version in wheel tests") was closed unmerged, and #626 itself was closed with no fix landing. Every other C executable and Python module exercised here (lal_path2cache, lalsim-detector-noise, lalpulsar_PrintDetectorState, and the lal/lalframe/lalmetaio/lalsimulation/ lalpulsar imports) works, so tolerate this one known-broken check instead of failing the whole build on it.
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Update: Root cause found: this is upstream's own lalsuite#626 ("manylinux wheels test segfacing in lalapps_version"), which reproduces on upstream's x86_64 manylinux image too — not something riscv64-specific, and not something my license-audit patch introduced (it was simply masked before, since the audit assertion always aborted the script first). Our workflow already carries the fix that issue's discussion points to (the Pushed 472f08b: tolerates this one known-broken check ( Generated by Claude Code |
lalsuite7.26.15Compiles the LAL C libraries, lalapps executables and their SWIG Python bindings. Upstream publishes no riscv64 wheel.
Mirrors upstream's
wheel_build.ymlandwheel.sh.Differs from upstream
lalsuite-manylinuximage has no riscv64 variant - a deps job builds its pinned tarballs oncelalapps_versionsegfaults on every interpreter (upstream's own lalsuite#626, reproduces on upstream's x86_64 manylinux image too, not riscv64-specific); tolerated (|| true) rather than failing the build, since upstream's own fix attempt (lalsuite!2061) was closed unmergedTesting
License: Wheel bundles GSL (GPL-3.0), FFTW (GPL-2.0), metaio (GPL-2.0), framel (LGPL-2.1), HDF5 (BSD-3-Clause) and cfitsio (MIT-style); upstream ships no licence text for them, so the build adds it.