Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

[Sébastien Bernard <sbernard@nerim.net>]

Le 28/04/2014 22:25, Sébastien Bernard a écrit :
> Le 28/04/2014 22:01, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sebastien's machine now has a xorriso-1.3.7 (the current development
> > snapshot) with changed libburn/async.c.
> >
> > The callers of add_worker() now declare:
> >
> >          union w_list_data o;
> >
> > rather than
> >
> >          struct union_member o;
> >
> > The type of the fourth parameter of add_worker has been changed
> > from (void *) to (union w_list_data *).
> >
> > The formerly SIGBUSsing statement became quite elegant
> >
> >          a->u = *data;
> >
> > Given that it is a good bug catcher on Debian sparc, and more concise
> > than e.g.
> >          memcpy(&(a->u), data, sizeof(union w_list_data));
> > i tend to keep it.
> >
> >
> > To Sebastien:
> >
> > Please give
> >     /home/thomas/xorriso-1.3.7/xorriso/xorriso
> > a thorough testing with your debian-cd setup.
> > ("make dist" should even pack it up to a usable tarball)
> >
> > Whatever the outcome will be with that strange strcmp() bug,
> > your original alternatives 1 and 2 have small chances to succeed
> > unless we declare surrender on 3.
> >
> > 1- It has been publicly stated in the past that Debian will not
> >     accept a package with original mkisofs. Stated reason was social
> >     incompatibility with its author.
> >
> > 2- Steve McIntyre prefers xorriso to take over genisoimage tasks
> >     rather than changing genisoimage code.
> >     From his view, xorriso is comfortably self-maintaining. :))
> >     I try to give him few reason to regret this strategy.
> >
> > 3- A xorriso candidate (rather stack sanitized than alignment
> >     corrected) has now been beamed onto your machine.
> >
> >
> > Have a nice day :)
> >
> > Thomas
> Thomas,
>
> I'm trying to rebuild from sid now, since sparc has been removed from 
> jessie.
>
> Cheers
>
> Seb
Two thumbs up thomas :
xorriso -as mkisofs -r -J -o ./tmp/miniiso/mini.iso -G /boot/isofs.b -B 
... ./tmp/miniiso/cd_tree
GNU xorriso 1.3.7 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.

Drive current: -outdev 'stdio:./tmp/miniiso/mini.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is blank
Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 8791m free
Added to ISO image: directory 
'/'='/home/seb/dev/debian-installer-20140316/build/tmp/miniiso/cd_tree'
xorriso : UPDATE : 7 files added in 1 seconds
xorriso : UPDATE : 7 files added in 1 seconds
xorriso : NOTE : Copying to System Area: 7040 bytes from file 
'/boot/isofs.b'
ISO image produced: 4235 sectors
Written to medium : 4235 sectors at LBA 0
Writing to 'stdio:./tmp/miniiso/mini.iso' completed successfully.

So the package was built ok.

Cheers to team work.

Seb