[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#839320: Would you upload with disabled test?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:39:13AM +0200, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> > since there are no responses so far I wonder how to proceed with the
> > package. 
> 
> Yes, that's one of the bugs that has been on my list for a while as well...
> 
> > I need to admit I get a different error when trying to build
> > the current state of gubbins packaging Git:
> > 
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..   -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I../tests -pthread -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/gubbins-2.1.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -c -o ../tests/run_all_tests-run_all_tests.o `test -f '../tests/run_all_tests.c' || echo './'`../tests/run_all_tests.c
> > /bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -I../tests -pthread -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/gubbins-2.1.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security  -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -o run_all_tests ../tests/run_all_tests-check_branch_sequences.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_gubbins.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_parse_phylip.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_snp_searching.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_snp_sites.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_vcf_parsing.o ../tests/run_all_tests-helper_methods.o ../tests/run_all_tests-run_all_tests.o -lcheck libgubbins.la -lz -lm  -lrt -lsubunit 
> > libtool: link: gcc -I../tests -pthread -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/gubbins-2.1.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,-z -Wl,now -o .libs/run_all_tests ../tests/run_all_tests-check_branch_sequences.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_gubbins.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_parse_phylip.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_snp_searching.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_snp_sites.o ../tests/run_all_tests-check_vcf_parsing.o ../tests/run_all_tests-helper_methods.o ../tests/run_all_tests-run_all_tests.o  -lcheck ./.libs/libgubbins.so -lz -lm -lrt -lsubunit -pthread
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_error.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_msg.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_pack.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_run.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against undefined symbol `error_jmp_buffer' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_str.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_log.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_print.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > Makefile:742: recipe for target 'run_all_tests' failed
> > make[4]: *** [run_all_tests] Error 1
> 
> This looks like a completely different issue altogether I have never
> seen, for me it was always failing tests.
>...

That's #837445 in the check package, which became fatal with gcc-6 in 
unstable defaulting to PIE since this week Tuesday.

Building with gcc-6 from testing should work around this problem (untested).

> Cheers
> Sascha

cu
Adrian

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