Bug#641265: libarchive FTBFS on Alpha.

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Cree
Further to this libarchive_test failure due to SIGPIPE. The SIGPIPE signal occurs during the call to write() of the following code in libarchive/archive_read_support_compression_program.c, line 331ff: do { ret = write(state->child_stdin, p, avail);

Bug#641265: libarchive FTBFS on Alpha.

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Cree
Would the following help to debug the libarchive failure to build on Alpha and sh4? On Alpha I have been able to build libarchive and run test program libarchive_test under gdb The following occurs: (gdb) set args 25 (gdb) run Starting program: /home/mjc/debian/libarchive/libarchive-2.8.5/libarc