afflib fails to build on some architectures

[mika@debian.org (Michael Prokop)]

Hi,

I'm member of the Debian forensics team and wanted to inform you
that we noticed a problem with building afflib on some
architectures:

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?suite=unstable&p=afflib

As you can see the tests fail at/with:

  af_open(blank.aff): No such file or directory
  ENCRYPTED SEGMENTS IN BLANKE.AFF --- STOP
  FAIL: test_passphrase.sh

The bugs are reported at:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552049
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549832

As this is a major showstopper for afflib being shipped with the
upcoming stable release of Debian I'd appreciate any help so we can
resolve this issue.

Do you have any ideas how we could fix this issue?

PS: We already have a patch which addresses a bashism issue in the
tools/test_*.sh scripts. You're welcome to apply it in your upstream
tree:

  http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/dl/afflib/3.5.2+dfsg-1/03-bashism.patch

Thanks for any assistance.

regards,
-mika-
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