[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#536676: plink: FTBFS on MIPS.

[Luk Claes]

Charles Plessy wrote:
> Package: plink
> Version: 1.06-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: no longer builds from source
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> Le Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:06:21PM +0200, Luk Claes a écrit :
>> Charles Plessy wrote:
>>> Le Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:56:31PM +0000, DDPOMail robot a écrit :
>>>> === plink:
>>>> = Missing build(s) on mips,mipsel
>>>>   This might need manual action from your side.
>>>>   See http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=plink
>>> Dear MIPS porters,
>>>
>>> any idea of what makes plink fail to build on mips and mipsel?
>> Seems to be a bug in the compiler from a first look, lets see if a retry
>> still fails.
> 
> Thank you very much for the rebuild. It reproduced the bug :(
> 
> How about trying to separate the issues of having a bug in GCC and having a
> package that does not build on MIPS? I noticed that the package is built with
> -O3, which probably unnecessary. Can somebody try to build plink with -O2 on
> MIPS to see if it escapes the bug? The following patch in debian/rules would to
> the job: 

You do know that you can try this yourself on mahler.d.o, right?

Cheers

Luk