Re: Bug#183425: coreutils_4.5.8-1(m68k/unstable/poseidon): FTBFS on m68k

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Michael Stone writes:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:14:32PM -0600, you wrote:
> >coreutils fails to build from source on m68k, test failing.
> 
> Well, it works everywhere else. GCC compile error? The test that's
> failing is the sha1sum validation, the source for which has not changed.

Try to compile using -O0, if this helps, then merge object files
compiled with -O0 and -O1 until you find the one which gets
miscompiled.

There seem to be some packages which get miscompiled (knowing of bash).
I can reproduce this misbehaviour using gcc-3.2 and gcc-snapshot.

	Matthias