Re: qt-x11-free build fails
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:16:03AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> [cc:ed to the hppa porters individually, as well as to debian-hppa; please
> let me know if you prefer to get such mail just via the list in the future.]
Yes, I do - thanks.
> Are the hppa porters aware of bug #342545 in libgcc2, which is affecting
> builds of most Qt-related packages on hppa today?
No - but I can take a look at in the next couple of days.
I'll reply to the previous email about use of floating point
if no one else has by then either.
thanks,
grant
> I had suggested to LaMont
> that this was a result of the buildd being configured to throw SIGBUS
> instead of silently doing alignment fixups, but I see that this bug is
> actually an illegal instruction, *not* a SIGBUS, so this is presumably not
> as easy to fix as just throwing a kernel switch.
>
> This is currently the single largest blocker for KDE completing the c2a ABI
> transition, and large numbers of missing hppa builds are being ignored in
> the analysis right now because it's the only way to see what other real
> package bugs are outstanding. Aurelien has done some good work on pinning
> down the location of the problem, but an hppa porter is going to need to
> look at this to tell us what the proper fix is.
>
> If this bug isn't fixed by the time the rest of the KDE hint is ready to go
> in, we'll probably push it in leaving the packages out of date (and possibly
> uninstallable) for hppa. At that point we would also have to reconsider
> hppa's status as a release port, so hopefully someone will have a chance to
> look at this soon.
>
> Thanks,
> --
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