[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#876147: Bug#876147: camp: FTBFS on ppc64 and sparc64: FUNCTIONMAPPING/call error

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: retitle -1 camp frequently FTBFS on 64bit big endian: camptest-qt (Failed)
Control: severity -1 serious

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:52:32AM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Flavien Bridault <fbridault at ircad.fr> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for your report. I wonder if the issue is not because of the cast
> > to <unsigned long>, whereas the function declared in
> > function_mapping.cpp:55 uses <long>.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply!
> 
> AFAICT from testing on the ppc64 porter box pizzetti.debian.org,
> addressing this formal discrepancy makes no difference.  (I would have
> tested on sparc64 as well, but can't currently reach the relevant porter
> box.)  FWIW, the result I got there fluctuated randomly between 21 and 22.

Looking through the build failures, it seems camptest-qt fails 
frequently (but not always) on 64bit big endian:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=camp&arch=s390x
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=camp&arch=ppc64
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=camp&arch=sparc64

cu
Adrian

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