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- To: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>, 434632-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#434626: [powerpc] broken 64bit packages
- From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:43:17 +0200
- Message-id: <20070726164317.GA367@hall.aurel32.net>
- In-reply-to: <20070725123007.GA27839@hall.aurel32.net>
- References: <18087.12691.310901.543429@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20070725123007.GA27839@hall.aurel32.net>
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:30:07PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> clone 434626 -1
> reassign -1 gcc-4.2
> retitle -1 [powerpc] generate broken 64-bit binaries
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Package: libc6-ppc64
> > Version: 2.6-3
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Seen while rebuilding gcc-4.2 / gcj-4.2; 64bit configure tests fail
> > with a segfault. Reverting to 2.6-2 lets the bootstrap succeed.
>
> The only significant difference between 2.6-2 and 2.6-3 is that we use
> gcc-4.2 to build the glibc. So it looks like gcc-4.2 is broken.
>
> We will switch back to gcc-4.1 for powerpc.
This is actually a problem with glibc, which make too much assumptions on
the generated assembly code.
Closing the bug.
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