Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-08-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 at 08:45:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > What I am getting out of that command for mips occasionally is "`ed" > (without the double quotes but including the back-quote). I can't help thinking that rather than parsing the binary, it would be simpler to check that EDITOR_PROGRAM

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-08-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: severity -1 serious I am raising the severity to serious, because this issue affects a release architecture: mips. In a rebuild of patch for mips the relevant check fails sometimes. It didn't fail on the buildd last time and doesn't fail in all of my rebuilds, but it does fail occasional

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-06-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
László Böszörményi dixit: > OK, my next upload will contain that fix. Still, do you know what's >cause this on those architectures? Yes: difference in compiler optimisations. Basically, you use the string "ed" in the source at least two times; with some compiler versions and architectures, this i

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-06-09 Thread GCS
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > László Böszörményi dixit: >> Tested it on four machines: 2x Sid/amd64, Jessie/amd64 and kFreeBSD/i386 . > > This is very… limited ;) But have some variations. Package list of Sid and Jessie, architectures of amd64 and i386, Linux and kFreeB

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-06-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
severity 729132 important thanks László Böszörményi dixit: >On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Yunqiang Su wrote: >> Which arch are you test it? m68k, which FTBFS too. >> I have the same problem on mips64el. Figures… > Tested it on four machines: 2x Sid/amd64, Jessie/amd64 and kFreeBSD/i386 .

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-06-09 Thread GCS
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Yunqiang Su wrote: > Which arch are you test it? > I have the same problem on mips64el. Tested it on four machines: 2x Sid/amd64, Jessie/amd64 and kFreeBSD/i386 . Please prove somehow this FTBFS first that set it to severity serious. Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2014-06-08 Thread Yunqiang Su
Control: severity -1 serious Which arch are you test it? I have the same problem on mips64el. -- Yunqiang Su -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#729132: patch: FTBFS due to ed check, with solution

2013-11-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Source: patch Version: 2.7.1-4 Severity: important Tags: patch patch FTBFS with this: dh_auto_test # make sure we call ed as "ed" [ "$(strings -n 2 src/patch | grep -w 'ed$')" = "ed" ] make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 The cause for this is: (pbuild-20096)root@aranym:/ # strings -n 2 /tmp/buildd