Bug#805323: Bug #805323: graphite2 ARM HP PA FTBFS

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi Tim,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:37:20AM +0700, Tim Eves wrote:
>    Hi Rene,
> 
>    I've posted a reply to the bug directly on the [1]linux.debian.bugs.dist
>    Google Group but it hasn't shown up yet. I'm not sure if it has not gone
>    through or I'm being impatient, but in case it's the former:

That's probably because -bugs-dist is a Mailing list just mirrored to google
groups and -bugs-dist is not supposed to be posted directly to. (every bug gets
sent there...)

Mails to bugs go to nnnn@bugs.debian.org and then get recorded in the bug log
and send to the maintainer.

>    The bug has been fixed in commit 594d92c0c0efbd3a87a32260f57e502200c351a7
>    "Fix misaligned access on ARM and HP PA processors during collision".
> 
>    It was a non-32 bit aligned 32bit read, some processors (ARM) are stricter
>    about this than others (Intel), which could explain the fact it built fine
>    on other BE archs.
> 
>    We have been regularly testing against armhf on the Qemu Versatile Express
>    emulator, under which it turns out this bug is not reproducible.  Once we
>    tried with real hardware (RPi B+) it showed up.

Thanks.

Regards,

Rene