On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Jussi Pakkanen <jpakk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote: >> meson 0.43.0-1 fails to build from source in Ubuntu and with Debian >> Reproducible Builds >> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/meson.html >> >> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meson/0.43.0-1/+build/13633070 > > This is caused by the fact that GDC's standard library is not compiled > with fPIC even though it should support shared libraries. We skipped > this test on GCC versions earlier than 7 (because it was known broken, > but should have started working in 7, and won't be fully fixed until > GCC 8 IIRC). > > I ran the full test suite on packaging on i386 and it passed without errors. > >> By the way, I notice that this version was uploaded as a binary upload >> instead of a source-only upload. > > I think this is because pitti's sbuilder had an issue and it crashed > the test runner when trying to determine the number of CPUs in the > system. IIRC the same issue was in reproducible build environment ages > ago. Under pbuilder the compilation works without issues.
What do you suggest for Ubuntu's builders which do use sbuild and I'm guessing gcc-8 is still months away. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
