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Re: Bug#381452: emacs21: FTBFS on mips, mipsel



On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:06:55PM -0700, Rob Browning wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> > Are you (or anyone else) looking into this bug?  The version in
> > testing FTBFS on all archs, and the version in unstable FTBFS on
> > mips*, so we don't seem to have a releasable emacs21 anywhere.

> I've looked in to this a little, but not heavily yet.  I did see
> mention of an Emacs-related gcc issue (for at least gcc 3.4), but it
> only claims to apply to versions of Emacs up to (and including) 21.3.

> Apparently in that case -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss will fix the
> problem.  I suspect that's probably not the cause here, but until
> there are mips or mipsel machines available, I can't really test much
> (without just uploading new packages).  Last time I looked on the
> project machines page, all of the relevant machines were listed as
> locked down.

OK, perhaps our mips porters can be of some help here; cc:ed to debian-mips.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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