Re: Bits from the RM

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:09:29 -0500 (CDT),
Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:52:32PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > > AFAIK, the unresolved difficult bugs are: (1) hppa build (2) dpkg
> > > (setjmp/longjmp) on sparc (3) NIS (will be fixed?)  (4) misterious
> > > apache on ia64 bug.
> >
> > Is there a bug# for (2)? If not, could someone forward the appropriate
> > mails to the BTS for tracking, please?
> 
> I'd be interested too.  Haven't seen anything on -dpkg about it.

It was reported by joshk on IRC, but I'm not still clear where this
problem come from.  Example:

	ultra30:~> dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version
	Version: 2.3.2-3
	ultra30:~> dpkg -s dpkg | grep Version
	Version: 1.10.10
	ultra30:~> dpkg
	Bus error

dpkg works well with some options, but only typing `dpkg' breaks with
bus error.  It's not related with the existence of libc6-sparc64.
From tracking with gdb, dpkg breaks setjmp()/longjmp().  The
mysterious thing is that it works fine to compile gcc-3.2/gcc-3.3
without -O2 optimization.  It's also ok with glibc 2.3.1-17, IIRC.

Regards,
-- gotom