Bug#335578: ocamlopt.opt segfaults on Alpha

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:14:57AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> (Falk, please tell us if you don't want to be CC'ed to further answers)
> 
> Quoting Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr):
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:39:26AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > Quoting Falk Hueffner (falk@debian.org):
> > > 
> > > > This breaks building geneweb and probably a whole bunch of other
> > > 
> > > Which could be ween as "breaks unrelated software" by the way.
> > > 
> > > I'm not fond of overflated severities but, well, my pet package
> > > (geneweb) is actually blocked by this....so I really hope that someone
> > > will be able to take care of this.
> > 
> > Christian, can you rebuild geneweb using bytecode on alpha, and downgrade this
> > bug to important ? 
> 
> 
> The bug actually *is* important and I do not really intent to make it
> "serious".

Ah, ok. Still, you need to be able to build on alpha :)

> I'm not sure about the right way to recompile geneweb with bytecode on
> alpha.
> 
> Actually, this is done in debian/rules with:
> 
> PACKAGE=geneweb
> WAY=$(shell if [ -f "/usr/bin/ocamlc.opt" ]; then echo "opt";           \
>         else echo "out";                                                \
>         fi)
> 
> 
> Then $WAY is used to compile one way or another.

Just add a dpkg --arch == alpha or similar check, maybe using the cross
compiler thingies.

> I guess that adding a specific test for Alpha architecture here would
> be the Right Hack.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS)
> 
> ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),alpha)
> 	WAY=out
> else
> 	WAY=$(shell if [ -f "/usr/bin/ocamlc.opt" ]; then echo "opt";           \
>         else echo "out";                                                \
>         fi)
> endif

Indeed. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther