Well, vicare is a sort-of fork/continuation of ikarus. If that compiles on i386, we could transition. Or, since this problem is i386-only, and I'd imagine most users are amd64, could just stop supporting i386.
- Bug#858037: ikarus FTBFS on i386: recipe for target '... Adrian Bunk
- Bug#858037: ikarus FTBFS on i386: recipe for tar... Bernhard Übelacker
- Bug#858037: ikarus FTBFS on i386: recipe for... Barak A. Pearlmutter