Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 01:20:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> I may provide you access to a shell account on my machines if needed.
>
>Yes, please.
>
>Plus a directory tree
> ./tmp/miniiso/cd_tree
>which can cause the xorriso crash.
>
>
>> Sparc architecture is extremely picky about alignement. Bad alignement,
>> yields SIGSEGV whereas intel only do it in the less efficient way.
>
>I would suspect the habit of my libisofs predecessor developer
>to use structs as access frame for byte arrays read from file.
>
>But why then was it possible to produce
> debian-7.4.0-sparc-netinst.iso
>by xorriso-1.2.6 as can be read from its "Preparer Id":
> XORRISO-1.2.6 2013.01.08.103001, LIBISOBURN-1.2.6, LIBISOFS-1.2.6, LIBBURN-1.2.6
>Does debian-cd pull "sparc" trees onto a non-sparc machine ?
Yes. We build all the release images on an amd64 machine, pettersson.d.o
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