On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 08:07:14PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > So let's look at elfutils again. For x32, the failing test is > run-backtrace-native-biarch.sh, so this looks a lot like a multilib > issue. On the other hand, any-amd64 matches[1] x32, so gcc-multilib is > being installed and we can see that from the build log. So without > further details, it's hard to say why it fails in the presence of a -m32 > capable compiler. > > Also verbose build logs would be awesome. > > For ppc64el, we see: > | configure: WARNING: not running biarch tests, gcc -m32 does not work > Indeed, a gcc-multilib package might help here. gcc doesn't build it for > ppc64el and I'd very much like to not add any further multilib packages. > Instead, we should move to fully triplet prefixed toolchains. Rather > than running "gcc -m32", run "powerpcle-linux-gnu-gcc". Besides saving a > lot of trouble, the latter is not ambiguous.
I don't see gcc-multilib on ppc64el. Someone else just mentioned that sparc64 needs to build-depend on libc6-dbg, and then fails with the biarch test. I'm wondering if I should just disable the biarch tests on all arches and remove the gcc-multilib Depends completly. Kurt
