On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:42:10PM +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> Package: samba
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch

> When building 'samba' on ppc64, I get the following error:

> checking for int... yes
> checking size of int... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (int), 77
> See `config.log' for more details.
> make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1

> I do not know the exact cause for this problem. However, it seems to be
> related to the use of the '-gstabs' compiler option in CFLAGS in
> 'debian/rules'. If that option is changed to just '-g',
> this FTBFS problem on ppc64 disappears.

I plan to defer this change until post-sarge; with the sarge toolchain, use
of -gstabs provides significantly smaller binaries with only moderate
differences in debugging ability, which I think is more important than ppc64
compatibility right now.

Post-sarge, switching to -g should be fine.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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