[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#876840: fseeko() on reference file: Invalid argument (Was: Bug#876840: staden-io-lib FTBFS on non-i386 32bit: FAIL: java)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi again James,

this is a kind ping since as I wrote below the issue seems not be solved.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I uploaded staden-io-lib now with your patch which solved the other bug.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:11:50AM +0100, James Bonfield wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:38:12PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> > 
> > Debugging the code for this test case shows it is doing fseeko with
> > offset 8 (on a working machine), SEEK_SET.  Strace shows this as an
> > lseek SEEK_SET to offset 0 and a read of 8 for some reason, but it
> > amounts to the same thing.
> > 
> > I'll try and find a qemu / virtual machine of one of the affected
> > architectures to test on.
> > 
> > My money is on something odd to do with large file support (it's a
> > total minefield) and changing of types.  Eg bad prototypes leading to
> > 32-bit to 64-bit type changes yielding a daft interpretation of offset
> > and/or whence.
> > 
> > I see bgzip.c doesn't have the standard boilerplate header setup of:
> > 
> > #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
> > #include "io_lib_config.h"
> > #endif
> > 
> > Does adding that fix the fseeko call to start working again?
> 
> Unfortunately not - see here the build logs:
> 
>     https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=staden-io-lib
> 
> Thanks for your quick response in any case
> 
>        Andreas.

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