Bug#419434: [Falk Hueffner] tetexlive-bin FTBFS on Alpha due to gcc PR28623

[Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:

>> tetexlive-bin fails to build on Alpha:
>>
> [...]
>> The reason is an obscure bug in gcc that only triggers when accessing
>> exactly the 32767th element of a character array. Since I don't know
>> how fix it in gcc and nobody else seems to be working on that, I
>> suggest you apply the following workaround:
>
> I think we'll do that.  Do you know which versions of gcc show that bug?

good: 3.3, 3.4, 4.0
bad: 4.1, 4.2

> Upstream also provides binaries for Linux on alpha, so obviously they
> didn't encounter it.

Maybe they used one of the good versions, or compiled with -mcpu=ev56
or higher.

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	Falk