Hi Michael, Quoting Michael Cree (2020-08-19 10:43:29) > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:39:27PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > Quoting Michael Cree (2020-08-17 11:30:52) > > > Ffmpeg does not build on alpha as it currently depends on > > > libpocketsphinx-dev but pocketsphinx does not build on alpha due > > > to long standing test suite failures. I see the build dependency > > > has been removed on many other arches including some release > > > arches, and it would be nice if the same could be done for alpha. > > > > Has those test suite failures been investigated? > > The test suite failures on mips* and s390x are reported in #812335 and > upstream [1], with no comment whatsoever from upstream developers in > almost five years. I therefore have not bothered to burden them > further with the Alpha test suite failure. > > When I investigated the Alpha test suite failure it became clear to me > that I was not going to make any headway in debugging it without a > much better knowledge of the pocketsphinx code base and I did not have > time to invest in doing that. Oh, you already did a lot of investigation. Cool! Sorry if I was unclear: I did not mean to imply that you should _fix_ the underlying issue - although that would obviously be amazing :-) What I would like (other than perfectly compiling code everywhere) is a Debian bugreport tracking the underlying issue of pocketsphinx failing to build on alpha. We can then tag that as affecting ffmpeg, and if/when that issue gets solved then ffmpeg maintainers get notified and can drop the linking exception. In other words, I worry that if now avoiding pocketsphinx linkage for alpha, then we fail to notice if that workaround is later no longer needed. It is unclear to me which arches bug#812335 is intended to track: Title mentions mipsel/mips64el only, but upstream bugreport mentions mipsel, s390x, alpha, hppa and mips64el (and emphasizes mipsel and s390x). Would it perhaps make sense to either update the subject of bug#812335 to mention all archs affected, or file separate bugreports for related but separate issues for those other arches? Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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