Bug#419434: [Falk Hueffner] tetexlive-bin FTBFS on Alpha due to gcc PR28623
submitter 419434 Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
thanks
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: texlive-bin
> Version: 2007-3
> Severity: Serious
>
> From: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
> Subject: tetexlive-bin FTBFS on Alpha due to gcc PR28623
> To: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:17:11 +0200
> Resent-From: debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> tetexlive-bin fails to build on Alpha:
>
[...]
> 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
> how fix it in gcc and nobody else seems to be working on that, I
> suggest you apply the following workaround:
I think we'll do that. Do you know which versions of gcc show that bug?
Upstream also provides binaries for Linux on alpha, so obviously they
didn't encounter it.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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