Re: elfutils and libgc FTBFS

[Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xs4all.nl>]

On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 20:17 +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
    
> Oook, so I looked in the branch debian/1%7.4.2-7.
> 
> The build fails because someone moved some architecture-specific
> files
> to a src/ directory, and didn't update the build scripts accordingly:
> 
> src/
>   ia64_save_regs_in_stack.s
>   sparc_mach_dep.S
>   sparc_netbsd_mach_dep.s
>   sparc_sunos4_mach_dep.s
>       
> Why these files were moved to that subdirectory is a mistery to me:
> upstream (git) libgc has them in the top-level source directory.
> 
> Anyway, copying libgc/src/sparc_mach_dep.S to libgc/ fixes the sparc
> build in sparc*-*-linux-gnu.
> 
> I would suggest to move these 4 files back to the top-level source
> directory.  That may also be needed by the A64 build :)

Is there a better way to find out the 1:7.4.2-7 patches, because it's
used by testing and unstable. That's what qa is calling now.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libgc

Thanks,


Frans van Berckel