Re: Bug#344615: missinglib: ftbfs [sparc] *** [test] Bus error
Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Mike Furr wrote:
>
>>Julien Cristau wrote:
>>
>>>%i1 contains 0xa3f74, which is indeed not double-word aligned.
>>>The ocaml float allocation function doesn't take care of alignment, so
>>>we've reported this problem upstream.
>>
>>Hmm... The new version of omake which I just uploaded failed to build
>>for exactly the same reason it seems. I wonder how many packages this
>>has affected for sparc. It looks like it will only surface when the
>>resulting code is run and I know a lot of packages don't have test
>>suites. :-(
>
>
> First, sparc is not currently a Release architecture, so this is not as
> important as it used to be.
>
> Second, we simply need to upload the fixed version (-5 prepared by Julien,
> Samuel can you upload it ?), and then ask Steve to binNMU retrigger all ocaml
> packages on sparc, and the problem should go away.
I'll try to do the upload tonight.
> Not sure if this introduces an ABI breakage or not though.
I don't see how it could break the ABI on other archs than sparc and
since sparc is almost unusable for now on sparc I think I can go for a
new upload now.
Cheers,
Samuel.
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