Re: Fwd: Help needed debugging on ARM

[Michael Wild <themiwi@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 08/29/2012 11:04 AM, Michael Wild wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 10:48 AM, Stefan Peter wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On 29.08.2012 09:35, Michael Wild wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to resolve a very strange build failure that is happening on all
>>> ARM architectures. The package builds some of its documentation images
>>> with asymptote, which fails [1].
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that this problem is armel related. The error message from
>> [1] indicates "Extra }, or forgotten $." when building the documentation
>> and the release notes for 0.1.1 from [2] mention "Markup fixes in the
>> documentation ". It seems to me that these two issues may very well be
>> realated.
>> You may want to build 0.1.1 (or even 0.1.2, released 2012-07-23) in
>> order the validate the issue. A diff for the plain_Label.asy file of
>> these three versions may shed some light, too.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Stefan Peter
>>
>> [1]
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=freefoam&arch=armel&ver=0.1.0%2Bdfsg-1&stamp=1345145759
>> [2] http://freefoam.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I only get this errors on ARM, all other architectures are fine. The
> "markup-fixes" you mention are related to the asciidoc source, not the
> asymptote images.
> 
> Michael
> 

Wow, that's fun. I got the QEMU VM up and running, and guess what. No
error! Works just fine. So either it is my setup, the fact that I'm
running inside QEMU, or these build failures are sporadic.

Could it be a difference in the CPU type? I chose Versatile/PB while the
failing buildd for armel (alwyn) is a Marvell Feroceon (Kirkwood?).
However, AFAIK, this option is not available with QEMU... What should I use?

Any other advice on how I could get to the bottom of this issue?

Thanks

Michael