Issue facing in running tests using multibuild in aarch64 platform

[odidev]

@matthew-brett ,

I am working on adding arm64 jobs in Travis for freetype library. It uses multibuild to build wheel and run the tests. I have added the job in travis with config settings as MB_PYTHON_VERSION=3.6, MB_ML_VER=2014, PLAT = aarch64. I am facing issue "standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused "exec format error"" in testing phase when calling the function "install_run $PLAT". It is running the test cases in docker container with docker image "matthewbrett/trusty:64", which I suppose is for x86_64 platform.

Kindly, May I know how can I resolve this issue.

[Matthew Brett]

Right - that testing docker container is x86 - you need some other docker container that has Python etc to run the tests in. Multibuild also needs something for you to specify the container - but that's pretty easy to set up, if you have a container in mind.

[odidev]

@matthew-brett ,
Thanks for the reply.
As we are using manylinux aarch64 docker image for building wheel with docker_build_wrap.sh, why we need to use different docker image for running the tests why not in the same container with docker_test_wrap.sh. Can you help me in understanding the same.

[Matthew Brett]

You need to change this line : https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/blob/devel/travis_linux_steps.sh#L124 The best solution would be a pull request rather like this one: https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/pull/103 but allowing you to customize the image that the tests are run in.

[odidev]

@matthew-brett
In PR #314 , commit matthew-brett@f16e61f fixes this issue. May I know when it will be merged. So, that I can use the same in freetype package.

[Matti Picus]

gh-314 is merged, you can update to latest devel.

[Matti Picus]

Closing, please reopen if there are still problems or open a new issue.