On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:10:38PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (31/12/2008): > > so leaf-eq? seems the buggy one. Still need to go deeper, but I > > thought I'd let the bug log know. I've also noticed there were other > > “bar” occurrences in the file, so I've replaced it with “fooish”, but > > that still breaks in the same way. And if there are other folks who > > want to play with it, once the build failed, the tests can be run > > using “make check-TESTS”. > > Hrm. Maybe I'm wrong but that looks like it could be a miscompilation > bug. Explanations: since upstream moved from CVS to git, I gave > bisecting a try. I used “git merge-base” to find the branchpoint between > the 1.6 and 1.8 branches, and try to build there. I had to tweak the > environment a bit, but then stumbled upon FTBFS with gcc-4.3. Since I > wasn't keen on patching every revision to be tried, I tried with > gcc-4.2, and then I couldn't reproduce the test-suite failure anymore. > > I'm not sure how to debug that any further without having to fix every > tried revision, which would mean a dozen or so. I think I'll be lacking > either time or skills to fix every build failure, so I'll leave it up to > the maintainer to see what to do from now.
I just tried to build it with CFLAGS=-g -O0 and the test-suite didn't fail any more. -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> | Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Listmaster Public key http://zobel.ftbfs.de/5d64f870.asc - KeyID: 5D64 F870 GPG Fingerprint: 5DB3 1301 375A A50F 07E7 302F 493E FB8E 5D64 F870 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
