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Re: gdcm: Got a SIGABRT while executing native code



On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Mirco Bauer <meebey@debian.org> wrote:
...
> That it freaks out like this is probably a bug, not sure if SIGABRT is
> ok for expected fatal conditions.
>
> The issue is that some (but not all) buildds do not have a writable
> home-directory. The Mono runtime is emulating some I/O features that
> Microsoft .NET supports using that .wapi directory in $HOME. Most
> applications don't need this emulation though, so either the emulation
> should be disabled or a writable home-directory set. This common issue
> is also mentioned in the Debian CLI Policy §4.3 [0]
>
> The recommended version is now to disable it using:
> export MONO_DISABLE_SHM=1

I do not understand what this means. Do you want me to add the
previous export to the debian/rules file for gdcm ?


> One related note, I did a short check of the gdcm source packages and

Cool ! Thanks for taking the time !

> noticed it doesn't handle "Mono architectures". Mono is not available
> for all Debian architectures. It supports all except: m68k, hppa and
> alpha. This means your Build-Depends line has to cope with that, to
> only pull the mono deps in when it's a Mono arch. At the same time the
> configure script/call has to optionally skip the building of the Mono
> binding, else it will FTBFS on the named unsupported archs.

I am looking at:

http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-packaging.html#s-build-deps

Do you have a reference on how to do that ?

Thanks again !
-- 
Mathieu


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