control: tag -1 + patch On 2020-03-25 09:51, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020-03-12 13:55, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Control: severity -1 serious > > > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 01:53:25 +0100 Nicolas Boulenguez <nico...@debian.org> > > wrote: > > > Source: libgnatcoll-db > > > Version: 19.2-2 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > The relevant lines are: > > > > > > xref/gnatcoll-xref.adb: In function ‘GNATCOLL.XREF’: > > > xref/gnatcoll-xref.adb:40:1: note: variable tracking size limit exceeded > > > with ‘-fvar-tracking-assignments’, retrying without > > > Assembler messages: > > > 678119: Error: branch out of range > > > > This package has old binaries in mipsel, so this failure is RC as it > > prevents > > the package from migrating to testing. > > I have just got aware of this bug as it indirectly prevents gcc-8 > removal and makes the GCC maintainer angry. In the future don't hesitate > to Cc: the debian-m...@lists.debian.org mailing list so that porters can > be aware of the issue. > > My knowledge of ADA is very limited, so I am not sure I fully understood > the problem. However please find below a first workaround using the > -mxgot option to increase the size of the GOT and allow bigger jumps.
Hmm I didn't test the latest version of my patch. It happens that the DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND variable has to be set before the include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk. Please find below an updated patch: --- libgnatcoll-db-19.2/debian/rules 2019-12-17 11:41:57.000000000 +0000 +++ libgnatcoll-db-19.2/debian/rules 2020-03-25 08:41:05.000000000 +0000 @@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS := hardening=+all DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND := -Wl,--no-undefined \ -Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries -Wl,--no-allow-shlib-undefined + +# On mipsel gnatcoll-xref.adb generates long jump that do not fit in +# standard branch instructions. Use the mxgot option to workaround that. +ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),mipsel) +DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND := -mxgot +endif + include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk include /usr/share/ada/debian_packaging-$(GNAT_VERSION).mk Regards, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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