Re: cyrus-imapd: FTBFS on arm*, i386, mipsel, ppc64el and s390x

[Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>]

On 2020-05-12 01:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 5/12/20 1:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 5/11/20 11:56 PM, Xavier wrote:
> >> Could someone help us here ? I forwarded this bug to upstream ([1]) but
> >> didn't receive any response for now.
> >>
> >> (Cc to RFH bug)
> > 
> > The problem here is va_list. On some architectures, the calling convention
> > doesn't seem to allow comparing va_list against NULL due to the way va_list
> > is implemented on a particular architecture.
> Correction: The va_list problem seems to affect ARM architectures only.

This is a classic 'porting to arm' issue which used to catch people
out regularly 15 years ago because it was something where you could do
technically incorrect things that worked fine on other
architectures. It's a very long time since I saw something hit this issue.

Thanks for the patch Adrian.

Wookey
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