Re: many packages held for alpha
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:18:46PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:05:54AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:56:29AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> >> > The main problem is
> >> > that cmake FTBFS (Bug #789807) thus a growing proportion of the
> >> > archive is unbuildable on Alpha.
> >>
> >> See your private e-mail. I may have a handle on this beast. Won't
> >> burden the rest of the list with my speculation unless it pans out :-).
> >
> > Bob's speculation did pan out and we now have a working cmake! Thank
> > you Bob, you have enabled Alpha to survive another day.
>
> Some information would be nice... what was the problem? What was the
> solution? What versions are affected?
Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789807
Upstream bug with patch: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15736
Bug potentially affects all architectures but only by accident of
layout of binary executable showed up on Alpha.
Cheers
Michael.
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