Re: 0ad FTBFS on arm64: help expected

[Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau@free.fr>]

Le 29/11/2017 à 14:49, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> On 11/29/2017 02:36 PM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> > I am the new Debian maintainer of 0ad (a video game).
> > Since 0ad version alpha 22 (0.0.22 in Debian) the software fails to build on arm64.
> > The build logs are at https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=0ad&arch=arm64&ver=0.0.22-1&stamp=1508351579&raw=0
> >
> > The build error is related to mozjs-38.0.0 patched and embedded in 0ad:
>
> mozjs is a security-relevant library. It shouldn't be embedded into 0ad. Rather,
> you should link against any of the mozjs versions packaged and available in
> Debian. The security team will certainly not be happy about your embedded copy
> of a Javascript engine and they might as you to fix this issue or your package
> gets removed from testing.

I know.

0ad has its own list of patches above mozjs 38.2.1. See http://sources.debian.net/src/0ad/0.0.21-2/libraries/source/spidermonkey/

I have no idea if the official mozjs packaged in Debian can be used instead. That is something that could be experimented and it is on my TODO list.
I just maintain the 0ad package since 2 months.

Maybe the best next step is to use the Debian packaged mozjs and get support of arm64 for free.

Regards,

--
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau