[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 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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