Re: Bug#652115: ruby1.8: FTBFS on sparc: ./sample/test.rb:1848: [BUG] Bus Error

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 21:21:07 +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> 
> > The test fails at sample/test.rb:1848, which is
> > 
> > ary2 = $x.unpack($format)
> > 
> > We had a gcc-4.6 bug (http://bugs.debian.org/635126) which manifested 
> > itself as a miscompilation of pack/unpack function in Ruby. The bug 
> > got fixed in gcc-4.6 4.6.2-6 and the latest build attempt was done 
> > with 4.6.2-4, so it did not contain this fix. I'd say giving it back 
> > is pretty pointless unless we can bump gcc-4.6 version to 4.6.2-6 or 
> > later (which is a very good idea anyway, because we currently build 
> > packages with known bad compiler version).
> > 
> jcristau@grieg:~$ wb gb ruby1.8 . sparc . -o --extra-depends 'gcc-4.6 (>= 4.6.2-6)'

Thanks, build completed successfully:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby1.8&arch=sparc&ver=1.8.7.352-2&stamp=1326336427 

Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov                                           jurij@wooyd.org
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