Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc
Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@debian.org) wrote:
> Me neither. I think what we need at this point is to short-circuit
> something between Dieter, Stephen and you. Stephen has been
> working hard to wrestle this bug down, but it keeps popping up on
> Dieter's machine.
I just noticed that this bug is different than the bug that I wrestled
to the ground earlier. That bug involved complaints of "bad magic number".
This one precedes the complaint with "bad ASCII pathname length".
Which is new, at least!
> We should also make sure that you (Koen) have Stephen latest
> set of patches. You could start from the .diff.gz that gets built in
> the Debian package building process and which is on the url
> on my box I posted. I'll also try to remember to send it to you
> tonight.
I have to point out that I move.... slowly.... through the afio codebase.
If anyone, for any reason, would like to have access to my machine for testing
or development, I will gladly give you access.
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