Bug#753575: texlive-bin: FTBFS on s390x, test suite errors

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Matthias,

you posted on debian-ports and some others about the 4.9 transition.
I have now the problem with building texlive-bin on s390x. The
resulting binaries segfault on various occasions during the tests.

Switching to gcc/g++ 4.8 fixes this problem.

Do you have any suggestion on how to fix that?

I posted a lengthy description to the TeX Live builder list:
https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2014q3/003012.html

The problem is that compilation works, but the generated binaries
are just not working in some cases.

Before uploading a package which specifically selects the 4.8
compiler on s390x, I wanted to ask if you have any suggestion.

All the best

Norbert

On Thu, 03 Jul 2014, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Source: texlive-bin
> Version: 2014.20140528.34243-3
> Severity: serious
> Control: block 751525 by -1
> 
> Your package failed to build on s390x, preventing testing migration
> and blocking the poppler transition.
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=texlive-bin&ver=2014.20140528.34243-3&arch=s390x
> 
> Emilio

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