Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Lipe
> Perhaps the correct thing to do is just mark gpsbabel as incompatible > on arm. Until someone that's really familiar with Arm and the issues on it is willing to help tackle it, that may be appropriate. Only the systems with FP that looke IEEE-ish will have even a fighting chance. RJL -- To

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-04 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:44:36PM -0600, Robert Lipe wrote: > > If my memory is any good, arm, or atleast one of the debian > > arches, does not support floating point on the CPU and it's > > implemented in the kernel. > > I remember when systems like that roamed the earth. > > > There are sev

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-04 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:38:52PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:57:22PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > I know that arm is weird in some respect wrt floating-point, but I don't > > know a whole lot about it. I think though that sizeof(whatever) there > > is pretty similar

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:57:22PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > And on arm: > [snip] > > > > This is something in the MXF format. I don't see that on Alpha. My gut > > tells me it's another silly sizeof(something) problem. > > I know that arm is weird in some respect wrt floating-point

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Lipe
> If my memory is any good, arm, or atleast one of the debian > arches, does not support floating point on the CPU and it's > implemented in the kernel. I remember when systems like that roamed the earth. > There are several implemtations of this where one is slow but correct > and an other tha

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Lipe
> > This looks like a timezone problem I fixed in psitrext back in Oct of 03 > > but it might be needed the 'FREEZE_TIME' fix I applied in April of 04. > > Hmm, would that have escaped 1.2.4 somehow? Hmmm. Should be there. Let's knock these down a few at a time. > > (Apparently this system d

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Lipe
> This was all with the latest version in Debian which is 1.2.4. I'll encourage you to go with what's in the top of tree. I've been meaning to spin a release but just haven't found the time. > However, most things in are also available in things > like on most systems but not all of them are.

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:31:25PM -0600, Robert Lipe wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > > 've received some more information about failures to build gpsbabel. > > Kurt Roeckx provided some helpful data. > > It's not entirely clear which version of GPSBabel is in question here. This was all with

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:31:25PM -0600, Robert Lipe wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > > 've received some more information about failures to build gpsbabel. > > Kurt Roeckx provided some helpful data. > > It's not entirely clear which version of GPSBabel is in question here. Sorry. It's 1.2.

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Lipe
John Goerzen wrote: > 've received some more information about failures to build gpsbabel. > Kurt Roeckx provided some helpful data. It's not entirely clear which version of GPSBabel is in question here. > What can we do to help you debug the problem? Can you provide an account on failing sys

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Robert, 've received some more information about failures to build gpsbabel. Kurt Roeckx provided some helpful data. What can we do to help you debug the problem? (See http://bugs.debian.org/273005 for a history on this) Thanks, John On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:12:25PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

Bug#273005: gpsbabel: FTBFS: Fails on all arches with various errors.

2005-02-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, The package is now failing to build on all arches except m68k, and they don't all fail in the same way. On powerpc, hppa, s390, mips, mipsel: ./testo 51c51 < B0421143040679S15036423EA00 --- > B0421143040678S15036423EA00 ERROR comparing /tmp/gpsbabel.1531/igc_sed.out reference/