Re: [m68k] FTBFS, Please disable -pie

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 19:00:42 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Stephen R Marenka dixit:
> >openssh has failed to build from source on m68k since version 1:4.6p1-1
> >because -pie doesn't work right. Please disable it on m68k. It looks
> >like support for this already exists in debian/rules for hppa.
> 
> I see this has made it into dpkg-buildflags:
> 
>     122     # Mask features that are not available on certain architectures.
>     123     if ($os !~ /^(linux|knetbsd|hurd)$/ or
>     124         $cpu =~ /^(hppa|m68k|mips|mipsel|avr32)$/) {
>     125         # Disabled on non-linux/knetbsd/hurd (see #430455 and #586215).
>     126         # Disabled on hppa, m68k (#451192), mips/mipsel (#532821), avr32
>     127         #  (#574716).
>     128         $use_feature{"pie"} = 0;
>     129     }
> 
> Stephen, please define “-pie doesn't work right”, so we can try
> to figure out whether this is still the case.

Yes, I'm happy to unmask that feature for m68k as long as the porters
vouch for it working correctly now.

thanks,
guillem