[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#549427: Samtools error on SPARC 32 bit processors.

[Charles Plessy]

Dear SAMtools developers,

The C version of SAMtools is redistributed by the Debian project for multiple
hadrware architectures. I included simple tests in the build process, where the
non-interactive commands from examples/00README.txt are executed. This
uncovered a ’Bus error’ error on the Sparc architecture:

> /usr/bin/make  -C . CFLAGS="-g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -fPIC" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -g -Wall -O2" CPPFLAGS="" LDFLAGS=""  -C examples all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-samtools_0.1.6~dfsg-1-sparc-aGfAkY/samtools-0.1.6~dfsg/examples'
> ../samtools faidx ex1.fa
> ../samtools import ex1.fa.fai ex1.sam.gz ex1.bam
> [sam_header_read2] 2 sequences loaded.
> make[1]: *** [ex1.bam] Bus error
> make[1]: *** Deleting file `ex1.bam'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd-samtools_0.1.6~dfsg-1-sparc-aGfAkY/samtools-0.1.6~dfsg/examples'
> make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-check] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> 
> Please see
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=samtools&ver=0.1.6%7Edfsg-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1254564365&file=log
> for the ful build log.

If you are interested in working out this problem, we can run further tests.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan