I've just rebuild the 0.7.5 fakeroot package. 0.7.6 still has some
glitches for me, but should be ready for tomorrow.
See http://jukie.net/~bart/debian/amd64/ for details.
Package available here:
http://farbror.acc.umu.se/amd64/packages/fakeroot/0.7.5-biarch2/
It's also on alioth.
B.
----- bug report submitted ----
> Package: fakeroot
> Version: 0.7.6; reported 2003-09-21
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
> I am working on the amd64 port.
>
> I have had strange problems with the build of the fakeroot package. It
> was not consistent and occasionally the build would work, but the build
> of other packages (via fakeroot) would frequently fail.
>
> I finally tracked it down.
>
> The problem is in the padding inserted into the 'fakestat' and
> 'fake_msg' structures. If both faked and libfakeroot are compiled for
> the same architecture, then this padding is irrelevant since both
> programs will decode the structures offsets correctly. However, on
> amd64 we have a 32bit and a 64bit library and only a 32bit daemon. This
> causes problems since with the -O flag, gcc uses amd64 optimized
> structure padding... as you can guess the contents of the structures
> look completely different once they go through the msgsnd/msgrcv pipe.
>
> It took a while to debug it... but, the following simple patch seems to
> fix it. Please consider applying it. Althought I have not tried, it
> should not break other architectures, but will make my life easier. :)
>
> --- 1.1/fakeroot/communicate.h Sat Aug 9 15:50:15 2003
> +++ edited/communicate.h Sun Sep 21 21:47:16 2003
> @@ -120,14 +120,14 @@
> fake_mode_t mode;
> fake_nlink_t nlink;
>
> -};
> +} __attribute__ ((packed));
> struct fake_msg{
> long mtype; /* message type in SYSV message sending */
> func_id id; /* the requested function */
> pid_t pid;
> int serial;
> struct fakestat st;
> -};
> +} __attribute__ ((packed));
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
>
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: amd64
> Kernel: Linux muon 2.4.23-pre2 #3 SMP Wed Sep 10 19:09:24 EDT 2003 x86_64
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
>
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