Bug#397489: gtimer: crashes at startup on PowerPC

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Hello PowerPC porters,

Unfortunately, I still can't log in to bruckner for some reason, so I
haven't been able to investigate this bug further.  Another Debian user
has now reported that a simple rebuild of gtimer apparently makes the
problem go away on his system.  That would be great if so, although I
don't see any possibly relevant changes to gcc.

If as reported earlier decreasing the optimization level works around the
problem, I can do that for PowerPC for the upcoming etch release.  I'd
love to be able to get to the bottom of the actual problem, though.

Could anyone with access to a PowerPC system take a look and see if you
can understand what's going on and what the current status is?  If you can
confirm that a simple rebuild of the package fixes the problem, I'll ask
for the binNMU.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>