Bug#419434: tetexlive-bin FTBFS on Alpha due to gcc PR28623
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:
> Hi Falk!
>
> On Son, 15 Apr 2007, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>> The reason is an obscure bug in gcc that only triggers when accessing
>> exactly the 32767th element of a character array. Since I don't know
>
> Aehmm. Umpf.
>
> But in gcc-3 this wasn't a problem?! I have build texlive binaries (for
> upstream) on a Debian/woody since quite some time.
Right, it works with 3.3 to 4.0 (I'm not sure why, the fundamental
problem in gcc has been present forever, for example it also fails
with 2.95).
The problem would magically disappear if we pushed the minimum Alpha
CPU requirement to ev56, but this suggestion has met some opposition
last time it came up...
>> how fix it in gcc and nobody else seems to be working on that, I
>> suggest you apply the following workaround:
>
> Thanks, we will do it *really* soon, but couldn't it be possible that
> you (or someone else) does a bin-NMU for this arch?
I don't have a good box for that right now...
--
Falk
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