problem building gerris on armel: Illegal instruction

[Riku Voipio]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:24:57AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Dear armel experts,
> cc: Debian Science, Gerris upstream
> 
> gerris is FTBFS failing to build from source on armel, see
> https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=gerris
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=gerris&ver=0.9.2%
> 2Bdarcs081022-dfsg.1-3&arch=armel&stamp=1238595409&file=log

I didnt see this on my rebuild attempt (on a different machine).
You can try to reproduce this on allegri.debian.org - Ask Debian
admins[1] to install gerris build-dependencies into unstable
chroot.

[1] debian-admin at lists.debian.org

> The symptom in the log looks like:
> make[4]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/gerris-0.9.2
> +darcs081022-dfsg.1/doc/examples'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=link cc  -I../../src -I/usr/include -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"Gfs-tools\" -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -DFTT_2D=1 \
> 	classes.c -o classes ../../src/libgfs2D.la -L/usr/lib -lgts -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lm 
> ./classes > gfs.lang
> /bin/sh: line 1:  8434 Illegal instruction     ./classes > gfs.lang
> make[4]: *** [gfs.lang] Error 132
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/gerris-0.9.2+darcs081022-dfsg.1/doc/examples'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

> It's not clear to me why an "Illegal instruction" is occurring.  From
> the previous cc line, ./classes would appear to have been compiled
> successfully, so it should exist.  There's nothing obviously machine
> specific in classes.c (../../src/libgfs2D.la could be a different
> matter).

It could also originate from one of the external libraries gerris links
against.


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